Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
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I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.
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I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibility to call you. I have a responsibility not to be with another woman. I have a responsibility to be there on time when you need me.
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People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
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I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.
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When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
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I knew what it was at last-the visible manifestation of my will. My power, inherited from my god ancestors and distilled through generations of humanity, given shape and energy and potential. That was all magic was, really, in the end. Possibility. With it I could create anything, provided I believed.
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
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One lonely voice still shouting labour!
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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
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I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
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I will remember you;Will you remember me?Don't let your life pass you by;Weep not for the memories.
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I cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it.
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For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
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I felt like I was hobbling, like one oof the old crones from Act I of Macbeth - God knows my hair felt scraggy enough that I must have looked the part.
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Wise is one who knows much by nature
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The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.
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Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.
