Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETTYes, 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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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly 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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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My mistakes are my life.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Birth was the death of him.
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