Samuel Beckett Short Quotes

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That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.

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Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

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Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last.

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Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!

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Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?

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What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

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Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

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Language is best used where it is most efficiently abused.

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To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.

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To think that in a moment all will be said, all to do again.

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Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.

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Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.

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The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).

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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

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

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If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.

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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

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His writing is not about something; it is that something itself.
Of James Joyce

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If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

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To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?

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Interviewer: You are English, Mr Beckett?
Beckett: Au contraire.

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

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Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!

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Estragon: I can't go on like this.
Vladimir: That's what you think.

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

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Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

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The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.

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But is it true love, in the rectum? That's what bothers me sometimes.

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I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

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