Samuel Beckett Quotes - Page 13

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• We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?

  Samuel Beckett

  Thinking

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• VLADIMIR: What do they say? ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives. VLADIMIR: To have lived is not enough for them. ESTRAGON: They have to talk about it.

  Samuel Beckett

  Enough

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.55, Faber & Faber

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• Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

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  Fate, Too Late, Chance

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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• ...and a dream away in space with neither her nor there where all the footsteps ever fell can never fare nearer to anywhere nor from anywhere further away. Nor for in the end again by degrees or as though switched on dark falls there again that certain dark that alone certain ashes can. Through it who knows yet another end beneath a cloudless sky of a last end if ever there had to be another absolutely had to be.

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  Dream, Fall, Dark

  Samuel Beckett, Edward Bond, Nikolai Bokov (1976). “New Writing and Writers”

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• [T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.

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  Life, Daughter, Horse

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Murphy”, p.36, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most

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  Dark, Reality, Lasts

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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• I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.

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  Dark, Forever, Want

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “More Pricks Than Kicks”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.

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  Breathing, Greedy, Given

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.242, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.

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  Records, Lasts, Realizing

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.252, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Shadow, Looks

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.211, Faber & Faber

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• HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!

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  Mean, Laughing, Endgame

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.104, Faber & Faber

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• I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.

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  Art, Old Things, Littles

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• I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know.

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  Ends, Knows

  Samuel Beckett (1967). “Stories & Texts for Nothing”, p.69, Grove Press

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• Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.

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  Names, Language, Futility

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• Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

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  Book, Obscurity, Obscure

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• That penny farthing hell you call your mind

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  Mind, Pennies, Hell

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.123, Faber & Faber

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• I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them asexcellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I'm sure I have contributed to false values--as Stanley Woodward said, "Godding up those ballplayers."
  The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

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  Bible, Athlete, Writing

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• Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning.

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  Years, World, Wander

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Collected Poems in English and French”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.

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  Dark, Intelligence, Use

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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