Beckett Quotes - Page 3

• I went and saw him [ John Hurt ] here in L.A.He did a one-man Beckett show of Krapp's Last Tape. I went back and saw him afterwards, and what an actor he is. He is so gifted.

  Judd Nelson

  Hurt, Men, Tape

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

  Grant Achatz

  People, Renoir, Gaudi

  Interview with Michael Y. Park, www.epicurious.com. September 27, 2010.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading like a cross between Samuel Beckett's 'The Calmative' and Gordon Lish's Dear Mr. Capote, Robert Lopez's new novel gets under your skin and latches on.

  Brian Evenson

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

  5 Copy quote

• Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.

  Padgett Powell

  Book, Juice, Notable

  5 Copy quote

• We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.

  Harold Bloom

  Past, Journey, Three

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Improvement, Admire

  5 Copy quote