"Read the great stuff, but read the stuff……" — Edward Albee
"Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union."
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a…
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Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not…
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Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used…
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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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…
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All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
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