“Well, I suppose it is the Protestant thing to do.”
Samuel Beckett
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“Might not the beatific vision become a source of boredom, in the long run?”
Samuel Beckett
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“It is suicide to be abroad. But what is it to be at home, Mr. Tyler, what is it to be at home? A lingering dissolution.”
Samuel Beckett
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“Hamm as stated, and Clov as stated, together as stated, nec tecum nec sine te, in such a place, and in such a world, that’s all I can manage, more than I could.”
Samuel Beckett
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“I am so glad you have been able to preserve the text in all of its impurity.”
Samuel Beckett
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“Have at last written another [play, i.e., Endgame]…. Rather difficult and elliptic, mostly depending on the power of the text to claw, more inhuman than “Godot.”
Samuel Beckett
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“I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.”
Samuel Beckett
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“My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing else. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin.”
Samuel Beckett
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“If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the “Naught is more real …” and the “Ubi nihil vales …” both already in Murphy and neither very rational.”
Samuel Beckett
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“You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.”
Samuel Beckett
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“Here form is content, content is form.”
Samuel Beckett
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“If you don’t understand it, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is because you are too decadent to receive it.”
Samuel Beckett
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“The key word in my plays is “perhaps.”
Samuel Beckett
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“The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.”
Samuel Beckett
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“Fanny came in a couple of times. Bony old ghost of a whore. Couldn’t do much, but I suppose better than a kick in the crutch.”
Samuel Beckett
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“His semen had never done any harm to anyone.”
Samuel Beckett
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“Making unmakeable love”
Samuel Beckett
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“Those with stomach still to copulate strive in vain.”
Samuel Beckett
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“All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.”
Samuel Beckett
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“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”
Samuel Beckett
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Poetry
