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 BECKETTThe whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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