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Samuel Beckett

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Words are all we have.


— Samuel Beckett


What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.


— Samuel Beckett


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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.


— Samuel Beckett


#boots #fault #feet #his #man

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.


— Samuel Beckett


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


— Samuel Beckett


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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.


— Samuel Beckett


#cream #dublin #ireland #rich #thick

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.


— Samuel Beckett


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Habit is a great deadener.


— Samuel Beckett


#habit

Birth was the death of him.


— Samuel Beckett


#death #him

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.


— Samuel Beckett


#analyzer #bring #could #i #i am






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Ryan John ed. Early works
Beckett's earliest works are generally considered to have been strongly influenced by the work of his friend James Joyce. Nohow On: Company Ill Seen Ill Said Worstward Ho.

Strongly influenced by James Joyce he is considered one of the last modernists. He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984.

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