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Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour .


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Quote Left Habit is a great deadener. Quote Right
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Quote Left As between these two, the need that in its haste to be abolished cannot pause to be stated and the need that is the absolute predicament of pa... Quote Right
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Quote Left The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and... Quote Right
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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Quote Left No painting is more replete than Mondrian's. Quote Right
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