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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Belacqua, in Dream of Fair to Middling Women (written 1932, published 1992).)
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Quoted in Deirdre Bair, Samuel Beckett, a Biography, ch. 21 (1978).
Conversation with John Driver, 1961.)
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I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. First published in 1934. Belacqua, in More Pricks than Kicks, p. 29, Grove Press (1970).)
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Worstward Ho
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Book title, Grove Press (1983).)
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To be together again, after so long, who love the sunny wind, the windy sun, in the sun, in the wind, that is perhaps something, perhaps something.
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. First published in 1953. Sam, in Watt, p. 163, Grove Press (1959).)
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This is going to be a happy day. Another happy day.
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Winnie, in Happy Days, p. 23, Grove Press (1961).)
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Birth was the death of him.
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Speaker, in "A Piece of Monologue," one of the dramatic pieces in The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett, p. 265, Grove Press (1984).)
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