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About Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett was a 20th-century Irish playwright and poet. Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, and literary critic. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“The more people I meet the happier I become.”
— Samuel Beckett
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“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
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“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”
— Samuel Beckett
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“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
— Samuel Beckett
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“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
— Samuel Beckett
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“To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.”
— Samuel Beckett
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