Irish - Playwright | April 13, 1906 - December 22, 1989
I can't go on. I'll go on.
Samuel Beckett
Moving OnGo
Habit is a great deadener.
GreatHabit
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.
I AmTryingI CanOutLeaveBring
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
PeopleSaintsAppointmentBoastMuch
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
ManBetterMoreBetter ManThan
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
FaultsChangingThemTune
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
IntelligenceHumanitySensePoets
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
ManFeetBootsYouOverFault
Birth was the death of him.
DeathBirthHim
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.
BeginningWordsEndHandsomeLong
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.
LifeMyselfBeginningBookExercise
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.
QualityTearsWorldLaughTrueSame
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