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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 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. Quote Right
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Quote Left All life long, the same questions, the same answers. Quote Right
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Quote Left The chartered recountants take the thing to pieces and put it together again. They enjoy it. The artist takes it to pieces and makes a new thi... Quote Right
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Quote Left To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. Quote Right
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Quote Left An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage. Quote Right
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Book: Reflection on the Important Things