Beckett Quotes
28 quotes by 21 authors
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and…
— Samuel Beckett
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Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed…
— Barney Rosset
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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
— John Hurt
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I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For…
— Michel Foucault
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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my…
— Harold Pinter
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Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.
— Anthony Burgess
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Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence,…
— Barney Rosset
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
— Val Kilmer
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Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida,…
— John Lahr
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I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used…
— John Larroquette
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All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I…
— Dylan Moran
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Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett…
— Peter O'Toole
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Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.
— Art Spiegelman
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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
— Edward Albee
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Artemis: "Right, brothers. Onward. Imagine yourself seated at a cafe in Montmartre." Myles: "In Paris." Artemis: "Yes, Paris. And try as you will, you cannot…
— Eoin Colfer
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
— Samuel Beckett
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.
— Samuel Beckett
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It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.
— Samuel Beckett
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According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond…
— Gilles Deleuze
Who Wrote These Beckett Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 28 Beckett Quotes as follows: