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To contrive a little kingdom, in the midst of the universal muck, then shit on it, ah that was me all over.
Samuel Beckett -
I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
Samuel Beckett
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
Samuel Beckett -
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett -
This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…
Samuel Beckett -
Do we mean love, when we say love?
Samuel Beckett -
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett -
How tell what remains ? But it’s the end. Or have I been dreaming, am I dreaming? No no, none of that, for dream is nothing, a joke, and significant what is worse.
Samuel Beckett
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
Samuel Beckett -
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett -
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Samuel Beckett -
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
Samuel Beckett -
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
Samuel Beckett -
I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
Samuel Beckett
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
Samuel Beckett -
Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett -
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett -
I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.
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 -
To think that in a moment all will be said, all to do again.
Samuel Beckett
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
Samuel Beckett -
I can't go on. I'll go on.
Samuel Beckett -
I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.
Samuel Beckett -
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Samuel Beckett