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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 I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them as excellent b... 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 We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? Quote Right
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Quote Left The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, help... Quote Right
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Quote Left There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind. Quote Right
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