Samuel Beckett Quotes
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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I signed this girl's arm. And the next day, a family member shot me an email, and it was a link to this girl who had my signature tattooed on her arm. I was like, 'Man, that's dedication. I'm sorry you did that.'
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.
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When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever.
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The ways in which theological constructs pose questions about what it is to be a human being on this earth are deeply elegant and deeply interesting to me. I may not always agree with the answers religion offers, but I take great interest in the questions it poses.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.