Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat are we doing here, that is the question.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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