"It is useless not to seek, not to……" — Samuel Beckett
"It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it."
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Samuel Beckett
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220 Quotes by Samuel Beckett
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not…
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and…
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always…
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.…
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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to…
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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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Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the…
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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
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I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— Dylan Moran
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