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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
Biography
Author Profession:
Playwright
Nationality:
Irish
Born:
April 13
, 1906
Died:
December 22
, 1989
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett
Silence
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Samuel Beckett
Love
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Words are all we have.
Samuel Beckett
Communication
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett
Me
Look
Shine
Hell
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
Samuel Beckett
Memories
Good
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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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Laugh
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Tears
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
Samuel Beckett
Silence
I Am
You
Never
You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
Samuel Beckett
You
Earth
Cure
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
Samuel Beckett
Life
Myself
Book
Beginning
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett
Artist
Find
Mess
Now
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
Samuel Beckett
Faults
Them
Changing
Tune
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
Samuel Beckett
Rich
University
Thick
Dublin
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett
Intelligence
Humanity
Sense
Poets
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