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Samuel Beckett Quotes

«My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.»
«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.»
Author: Samuel Beckett (Writer) | Keywords: write about
«Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle»
«We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.»
Author: Samuel Beckett (Writer) | Keywords: bloom
«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.»
Author: Samuel Beckett (Writer) | Keywords: Acre, acres, worms
«In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.»
«I missed you...and at the same time I was happy. Isn't that a queer thing?»
Author: Samuel Beckett (Writer) | About: Happiness
«We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?»
«Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.»
«For why be discouraged, one of thieves was saved, that is a generous percentage.»

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