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Words Quotes by Samuel Beckett
- Words are all we have.
- 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…
- Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
- I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to…
- You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is…
- There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
- She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it…
- I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
- ...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go…
- Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
- Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great…
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