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Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett

“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 an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.”

- Samuel Beckett

Source/Notes: Molloy (1951)
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Samuel Beckett

“Birth was the death of him.”

- Samuel Beckett

Source/Notes: Rockaby and Other Short Pieces (1981 edition), Grove Press - ISBN: 9780802151384
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Samuel Beckett

“Do we mean love, when we say love?”

- Samuel Beckett

Source/Notes: Collected Shorter Plays (1984 edition), Grove Press - ISBN: 9780802150554
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Samuel Beckett

“Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.”

- Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

- Samuel Beckett

Source/Notes: Worstward Ho (1983)
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Samuel Beckett

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”

- Samuel Beckett

Source/Notes: Interview in Vogue, December 1969: "Writing becomes not easier, but more difficult for me. Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. Democritus pointed the way: 'Naught is more than nothing.'"
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Samuel Beckett

“Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.”

- Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett

“Habit is a great deadener.”

- Samuel Beckett

Source/Notes: Waiting for Godot (1952)
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Samuel Beckett

“I can't go on. I'll go on.”

- Samuel Beckett

Source/Notes: The Unnamable (1954)
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Samuel Beckett

“I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.”

- Samuel Beckett

Source/Notes: The Unnamable (2013 edition), Faber & Faber - ISBN: 9780571266920
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Samuel Beckett

“I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.”

- Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett

“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 life is just beginning.”

- Samuel Beckett

Source/Notes: A Samuel Beckett reader (1983 edition), Pan
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Samuel Beckett

“If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.”

- Samuel Beckett

Source/Notes: Malone Dies (1958 edition), Grove Press - ISBN: 9780802150912
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Samuel Beckett

“If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.”

- Samuel Beckett

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