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 BECKETTI tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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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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Better hope deferred than none.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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