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Samuel Beckett

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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.


— Samuel Beckett


#help #love

I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.


— Samuel Beckett


#death

There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.


— Samuel Beckett


#writing-advice #writing-philosophy #writing-advice

I was merely cursing, under my breath, God and man, under my breath, and the wet Saturday afternoon of my conception.


— Samuel Beckett


#inspirational

CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was always that.


— Samuel Beckett


#life

To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.


— Samuel Beckett


#happy-days #change

There I am then back in the saddle, in my numbed heart a prick of misgiving, like one dying of cancer obliged to consult his dentist.


— Samuel Beckett


#simile

To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.


— Samuel Beckett


#happy-days #change

drill one hole after another into [language] until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through – I cannot imagine a higher goal for today’s writer.


— Samuel Beckett


#imagination

She dragged me across the floor, stopping from time to time only to kick me. I didn't know our cows too could be so inhuman.


— Samuel Beckett


#cow #first-love #love






About Samuel Beckett

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Did you know about Samuel Beckett?

Ryan John ed. Early works
Beckett's earliest works are generally considered to have been strongly influenced by the work of his friend James Joyce. Nohow On: Company Ill Seen Ill Said Worstward Ho.

Strongly influenced by James Joyce he is considered one of the last modernists. He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984.

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