Samuel Beckett - Pause Quotes

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The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates)...me. (Pause.)

Samuel Beckett
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. (Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.) Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited.

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Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede.

Samuel Beckett
One of the thieves was saved. (Pause) It's a reasonable percentage.

Samuel Beckett
Krapp: Ah finish your booze now and get to your bed. Go on with this drivel in the morning. Or leave it at that. (Pause.) Leave it at that.

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I'm not unhappy enough. [Pause.] That was always my unhap, unhappy, but not unhappy enough.

Samuel Beckett
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

Samuel Beckett
We could have saved sixpence. We have saved fivepence. (Pause) But at what cost?

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Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

Samuel Beckett
Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. (Pause.) Let us not speak well of it either. (Pause.) Let us not speak of it at all.

Samuel Beckett
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.

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