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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…
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SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely…
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.…
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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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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,…
— 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…
— 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…
— Dylan Moran
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