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Writing Quotes by Samuel Beckett
- Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
- I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose…
- There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
- Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep…
- James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.
- I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had…
- My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.
- I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do…
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