Samuel Beckett Quotes - Page 12

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• God is love. Yes or no? No.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, God, Yes Or No

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.32, Faber & Faber

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• If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real ..." and the "Ubi nihil vales ..." both already in Murphy and neither very rational.

  Samuel Beckett

  Real, Would Be, Departure

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

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• Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.

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  Lightning, Guarantees, Dull

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• There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.

  Samuel Beckett

  Men, Shoes, Feet

  1955 Waiting for Godot, act1.

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• The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Events, Literature

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

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• What is this love that more than all the cursed deadly or any other of its great movers so moves the soul and soul what is this soul that more than by any of its great movers is by love so moved?

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  Love, Moving, Soul

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.92, Faber & Faber

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• My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.

  Samuel Beckett

  Writing, Letters, Life Is

  "Love, styes and stools" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2009.

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• I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.

  Samuel Beckett

  Moving, Past, Hands

  "Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces".

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• What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come

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  Blessed, Confusion, Waiting

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts”, p.78, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

  Samuel Beckett

  Time, Cases

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Mind, Said

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

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• Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.

  Samuel Beckett

  Achievement, Parent, Leaving

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to
  know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.

  Samuel Beckett

  Past, Use, Deny

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.100, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Try again. Fail again. Try better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Perseverance, Trying, Failing

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• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

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  Beauty, Long, Phrases

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability.

  Samuel Beckett

  Reality, Space, Might

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• Estragon: Nothing to be done.

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  Done

  Waiting for Godot act 1 (1952)

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• The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven asporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits.

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  God, Long, Water

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.332, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Adulterers, take warning, never admit.

  Samuel Beckett

  Warning, Adultery

  Samuel Beckett (2010). “The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Footfall, Rockaby and others”, p.152, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.

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  Loss, Thinking, Sight

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.183, Faber & Faber

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• It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.

  Samuel Beckett

  Has Beens, Rare Things

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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• What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all
  eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.

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  Should Have, Giving, Joy

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.332, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Believe, Sea, Atheism

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.160, Grove Press

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• We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Philosophy, Should Have

  Samuel Beckett (1959). “Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts”

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• In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

  Samuel Beckett

  Names, Eggs, Caves

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.122, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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