It's going to be a deal where, 'Hey, I got to get this guy out of here. We've got guys in the bullpen and we've got second and third and two outs, and we've got to get a hit. So let's pinch-hit for [the starter].' Even the other teams will do that,
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve... AARON KATZ Weve got a lot more than a lot of people. IAN WILLIAMSON It's been interesting, in a little bit less than nine months weve gone from trying to convince peopl... JOHN HOGAN Weve had some moral victories this season. Weve had one-goal losses against teams that did a number ... EVA LANG Both black and white children are using drugs of choice. We are concerned and we hope we can make a ... BRIAN CALDWELL Any time you've got two teams battling for the playoffs . . . it's going to be an all-out war. Playe... BRIAN DUNSETH Weve made it tough for looters to get into the neighborhoods, ... We work with a military police uni... AARON KATZ I think things got a little tough in the second period when it got a little physical. Some of our gu... MIKE BUTTERFIELD Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 d... LEE KUAN YEW We got hit on one side of the face, and now we're going to go get hit on the other. DAVID MICA Other teams were starting to close the gap so we got those big two points. Now the guys are going ov... DANY HEATLEY If we can get outs in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings, we'll be fine. We're going to score som... CHIPPER JONES I got wild, walked a couple of guys and hit a guy and they only got three runs, ... When we scored f... BRUCE CHEN We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spo... TIPPI HEDREN A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game. CY YOUNG We've just got to get over the hump here. You've got to bear down and not let guys get chances like ... ANDREW RAYCROFT We ain't even thinking about the division title. We've got to get better. That's all we know. We've ... GREG BUCKNER [Rasco has also served as a volunteer firefighter and first responder. He graduated from Prairie Gro... GREG MACK We've got to get the third light (on the scoreboard) in case they hit a hundred. JERRY GLANVILLE When you get out there on the mound, you've got what you've got, and you got to figure out a... JACOB DEGROM We're in the last third of the season and we've still got a lot to play for. We've got ourselves in ... STEVE MCCLAREN You think of those kids out there. I say kids. I have seen them. They are the greatest. You see thes... RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON That's one thing we have to do is manufacture runs. We've got a lot of speed and we've got a lot of ... BOB ROWE Nobody is ever going to be perfect but we've got some holes to patch and we've got to patch them qui... ED HARTWELL Nice to see a freshman get the hit. He's good. Not afraid. (He) just got up there, got a fast ball a... DWAYNE FOLLETTE I got hit out of bounds a little late, and as I was trying to get up, someone pushes me back down. I... STEVE SMITH We were a little behind in the first couple of innings. So I told the girls to be more aggressive. Y... DON MENGES We hit the ball pretty well at Kentucky but had some mental errors that cost us. It was fun to get b... JUSTIN SMOAK The one thing I was concerned about (going in) was our conditioning, and that showed up in the secon... ALAN SORENSEN It is driving me. It's driving me more now than ever. This is a great team. We've got great pitching... A.J. BURNETT He got a pitch out over the plate -- probably a mistake -- and I hit it on a line. Hit it high here,... BRIAN GILES [Hudson put himself in the playoff a difficult spot when, from the middle of the fairway, he pulled ... ALEX ADAMS You've got to realize there are 31 other teams in the NFL, so you can't get discouraged and let your... CHAD BROWN You've got to realize there are 31 other teams in the NFL, so you can't get discouraged and let your... CHAD BROWN It was a huge at-bat, because the game was pretty close. We had guys on first and second, so in my m... BEN SAYLOR Actually, I think the biggest at-bat of that whole inning was Quintero's. He got the single up the m... ADAM EVERETT Actually, I think the biggest at-bat of that whole inning was Quintero's, ... He got the single up t... ADAM EVERETT Charles came out in that third quarter with a point to prove to everyone. We got on him a little bit... JEFF BRIMHALL Good corners were going with the deep guys, so we've got to hit the underneath stuff. If teams give ... STEVE HOWEY It's huge that the middle of the lineup stays hot so that they have to throw strikes to Andruw. We'v... ADAM LAROCHE We really got going in the second half of the second period and in the third period, ... We got good... MARTIN BIRON The two situations are not even remotely related - except to the extent that both of us got hit over... DAN WALKER You've got to hit the ball like the [left] fielder did, on a line. You've got to really jolt it to h... TONY LA RUSSA I worried he'd hit me in the coconut, so I got into the habit of turning my back to the plate when w... CARLOS TOSCA Its a very concerted effort with the city of Portsmouth, the state of New Hampshire, the FBI and all... JAMES ADAMS They've got a lot of guys who can hit the home run so we've got to be ready. And we've got to tackle... KEITH ADAMS It was good that I got a chance to go out there and be a part of it, ... If they do say I'm going to... CODY PICKETT The rate increase were seeing for Unitil customers is the largest increase weve seen in electric rat... ANNE ROSS Being able to pinch-hit and get [the two-run homer Saturday] and this ... I don't know what's going ... MICHAEL BARRETT We got here and we got a good taste of being in the state tournament. When you get to this level, yo... GARY ROORDA By Saturday, I predict being in a crisis mode where I've got areas with no water. However we got her... BILL RUCKER I met the team in Minnesota. I pinch-hit against Eddie Guardado and struck out. We came back home an... MARK LORETTA They got the guys that they wanted to sign, and they also got two good corners in (Kelly) Herndon an... KEN LUCAS I'm just got past the point of making a big deal out of this stuff and just going out about my busin... ARRON OBERHOLSER I was scared. I think everyone on the team got scared just for a second. Josh hit some huge free thr... SCOTT UBBENGA I definitely felt like I had to get back out there. I had the one carry where I got hit in the knee,... ERIC SHELTON We hit free throws tonight and got that one stop when the other night we didn't do that and that was... DEREK THOMAS Edgar found a way to get the ball where nobody was standing. We had the lead, lost it, got it back. ... KEVIN MILLAR He had a few nerves. He ended up with runners on second and third with no outs and got out of it in ... JEFF TAGEANT (Williams) played well, and he got it done for them. He hit all the big shots, got into the paint wh... AL HARRINGTON Matt really stepped it up. He didn't have his best stuff but went out and pitched a complete game. O... BRIAN GRUBER Right now I don't see this team like it used to be early in the season. I've only been around when t... CARLOS GUILLEN [In this park], you got to hit it sharply, you got to hit line drives and stay away from the big par... FRANK ROBINSON The way the laws are set up, all the guys got to do is get a lawyer, pay a lawyer and get out. This ... FATHER TOM BONNETT We have a lot of confidence in each other. We're at the point now that when we get runners at second... DONOVAN NELSON We're going to have many more times where it's going to come out in our favor. I really feel that. Y... JOSH BARD He's a stallion. You've got to wrap him up, and you've got to get two or three guys in there. SPENCER HAVNER For the other guys, this is probably torture right now. But for me, I'm just anxious to be out here ... CORY BOYD We've got to get into a flow, and we haven't really hit it yet. We're going to hit it, we're going t... ED HINKEL When you pinch-hit, you know you're getting their best guys, and usually it's a reliever and... BILLY BUTLER You've always got three sets of players, ... You've got guys that are trying to get into the top 30 ... LOREN ROBERTS I hit a great shot into 18 and got cheated. The wind picked up and the ball rolled to the back of th... DIGVIJAY SINGH Before, we had guys like [Josh] Beckett and [A.J.] Burnett. They were hard throwers -- guys who trie... PERRY HILL I just needed to get hit. Once I got hit, I was OK. BEN TATE It's no fun watching your friend and teammate get hit back there, and drop back and get hit every ot... JEREMY SHOCKEY We had a very good first quarter. We got out and got going an hit those threes. DOUG PESICKA It's nice, but we came into get a win, and that's what we got. All that other stuff is minor. Guys m... GREG PAULUS He has got such good stuff, I don't think you really want to get in a hole on him. One of the first ... JIM THOME We're not looking to bring a large number of people up, and try to pinch-hit and then pinch-run, and... CLINT HURDLE He laid off some pitches to get in some hitting counts, and when he got a pitch to hit, he was on it... MIKE SCIOSCIA It's impressive. Since I've been here he's started out slow. This year he's come out racking. I'm ha... BOBBY CROSBY I just got into the corner and got on the gas to try and have good speed when I got to the start/fin... KASEY KAHNE Eric and Lee are going to draw a lot of double teams, so we've got to be able to throw to somebody e... JOSH REED I feel really good how Wes and Royal are doing right now. We've got to see some more and get more in... WES MEIER Right as I was throwing the ball, my left hip got hit and opened up and [the pass] sailed inside for... MATT BAKER Joel (Koopmans) got a good look at a (3-pointer) and it was in and out (to start the third). I think... DEAN WAGENAAR It looked like we were just going to go down 1-2-3 every inning. Somebody?s got to step up and get a... BILL MASSE He looks real confident out there when he's got the puck. You can tell that the other teams are back... NICKLAS LIDSTROM It hit me when we got out there what we were trying to do. It hit me, and I never got through the me... JENNY PETRIE It was nice to get a win in a game where Anne got hurt and we didn't hit the ball very well. But we ... BILL RZEPKA When you face the Cleveland Indians, you got to bring your 'A' game. You face that kind of a lineup ... OZZIE GUILLEN I just wanted him to be aware that that's the only (room on the ice) you're going to get. You've got... TONY AMONTE It worked out perfect. If the guys want to do that - miss a bunt and then hit home runs - that's fin... LUIS RIVERA Some guys probably ain't got no homes. We ain't got a place to play yet. And we ain't got any real c... FRED THOMAS We want to look at the players. We've got to get guys snaps. Guys have to get valuable snaps, so we ... RAY RHODES Policemen almost got hit, other people almost got hit. DENNIS KRILL Those kind of games come down to one big hit. Helling and Oswalt both pitched outstanding, and then ... NED YOST I wasn't as athletic as a lot of the other guys, so you've got to do the little things. You've got t... BRENT WILSON I just tell them they've got to hit for themselves. The more routines they hit, the more confidence ... 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SAMUEL BECKETT There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. SAMUEL BECKETT The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its likin... BERNARD BECKETT My mistakes are my life. SAMUEL BECKETT Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let... MARGARET BECKETT Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. SAMUEL BECKETT All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail bette... SAMUEL BECKETT The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else anoth... SAMUEL BECKETT Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful. SAMUEL BECKETT We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals. SAMUEL BECKETT To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that on... SAMUEL BECKETT Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more will... SAMUEL BECKETT I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. SAMUEL BECKETT Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the ... SAMUEL BECKETT Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, t... SAMUEL BECKETT Words are all we have. SAMUEL BECKETT Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet. SAMUEL BECKETT Make sense who may. I switch off. SAMUEL BECKETT How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularl... SAMUEL BECKETT The bastard! He doesn't exist! SAMUEL BECKETT Habit is a great deadener. SAMUEL BECKETT What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. SAMUEL BECKETT To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. SAMUEL BECKETT There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. SAMUEL BECKETT Birth was the death of him. SAMUEL BECKETT The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else anoth... SAMUEL BECKETT The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being... SAMUEL BECKETT Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in th... SAMUEL BECKETT Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the e... SAMUEL BECKETT Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear m... SAMUEL BECKETT Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is... BERNARD BECKETT I can't go on. I'll go on. SAMUEL BECKETT We are all born mad. Some remain so. SAMUEL BECKETT Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. SAMUEL BECKETT They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. SAMUEL BECKETT With all this darkness round me I feel less alone. In a way. I love to get up and move about in it, ... SAMUEL BECKETT Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. SAMUEL BECKETT My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly... MARGARET BECKETT We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? SAMUEL BECKETT And I was wondering how to depart without self-loathing or sadness, or with as little as possible, w... SAMUEL BECKETT I can't go on, I'll go on. SAMUEL BECKETT It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible. 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SAMUEL BECKETT The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature y... SAMUEL BECKETT I dont like animals. Its a strange thing, I dont like men and I dont like animals. As for Go... SAMUEL BECKETT Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. SAMUEL BECKETT Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better. SAMUEL BECKETT Each word seemed to me an unnecessary stain on silence of nothingness. SAMUEL BECKETT Real scratching is superior to masturbation, in my opinion. SAMUEL BECKETT Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is... BERNARD BECKETT I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely ... BERNARD BECKETT You're on Earth. There's no cure for that. SAMUEL BECKETT I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want... BERNARD BECKETT Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperatio... MARGARET BECKETT The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day. SAMUEL BECKETT I can't see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the ma... BERNARD BECKETT The only sin is the sin of being born SAMUEL BECKETT I hope the balminess of the morning is the warming of our collective consciousness. CHERYL BECKETT Old endgame lost of old, play and lose and have done with losing. SAMUEL BECKETT Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the ... BERNARD BECKETT Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto. SAMUEL BECKETT Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host. BERNARD BECKETT There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle. SAMUEL BECKETT Words are the clothes thoughts wear. SAMUEL BECKETT there is [...] a last even of last times of saying if you do not love me I shall not be lo... SAMUEL BECKETT Real scratching is superior to masturbation, in my opinion. One can masturbate up to the age of seve... SAMUEL BECKETT I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. B... SAMUEL BECKETT People absolutely embraced such a concept. CHERYL BECKETT [Taking a lighter view of the] ILOVEYOU ... sorry or pleased that as far as I'm aware, I have not re... MARGARET BECKETT Innovation needs to be encouraged so that land managers can seize opportunities related to climate c... MARGARET BECKETT You can almost never say that a particular event is caused by climate change, MARGARET BECKETT I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so, MARGARET BECKETT The public utilities and the public services are among the people who have done the most preparatory... MARGARET BECKETT Try again. Fail again. Fail better. SAMUEL BECKETT Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becomin... MARGARET BECKETT Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards. SAMUEL BECKETT The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes. BERNARD BECKETT Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything. SAMUEL BECKETT I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed. BERNARD BECKETT Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world... SAMUEL BECKETT Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inab... SAMUEL BECKETT The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness. SAMUEL BECKETT Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go. SAMUEL BECKETT ... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear i... BERNARD BECKETT The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a viol... SAMUEL BECKETT I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longe... SAMUEL BECKETT Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better... SAMUEL BECKETT They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more SAMUEL BECKETT It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go t... SAMUEL BECKETT The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. SAMUEL BECKETT What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the ear... SAMUEL BECKETT And if I sometimes hear nothing for hours on end it is for reasons of which I know nothing, or becau... SAMUEL BECKETT Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do,... SAMUEL BECKETT With his two hands he props up his jaw. He passes without a word. Perhaps he does not see me. One of... SAMUEL BECKETT Fortunately I did not need affection. SAMUEL BECKETT que ferais-je sans ce monde que ferais-je sans ce monde sans visage sans questions ... SAMUEL BECKETT That's how it is on this bitch of an earth SAMUEL BECKETT For why be discouraged, one of thieves was saved, that is a generous percentage. SAMUEL BECKETT We all are born mad. Some remain so. SAMUEL BECKETT I could not distinguish one modern work of art from another, but he taught me the difference between... SAMUEL BECKETT My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that h... SAMUEL BECKETT Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the ... SAMUEL BECKETT Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness SAMUEL BECKETT 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... SAMUEL BECKETT I can't go on. I'll go on. SAMUEL BECKETT Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. SAMUEL BECKETT Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the p... SAMUEL BECKETT I missed you...and at the same time I was happy. Isn't that a queer thing? SAMUEL BECKETT Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. SAMUEL BECKETT There are some problems remaining but what we have to be wary of is creating further problems oursel... MARGARET BECKETT You couldn't necessarily say, 'That hurricane, that storm, that flood only happened because of clima... MARGARET BECKETT I have to tell you that, sadly, this affectionate greeting contains a virus which has immobilized th... MARGARET BECKETT Bush agreed in Gleneagles that climate change was urgent. MARGARET BECKETT I am therefore announcing today our decision to set up a fundamental review of the agency. MARGARET BECKETT It is imperative that we find new ways to cooperate and develop a shared understanding of how the wo... MARGARET BECKETT Technology is essential to make the transition to a low-carbon economy and targets ... have a vital ... MARGARET BECKETT The focus of our agenda for this meeting is on energy, and on how we can make better use of technolo... MARGARET BECKETT sorry or pleased that as far as I'm aware, I have not received an e-mail saying 'I love you.' MARGARET BECKETT Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful ... BERNARD BECKETT What is that unforgettable line? SAMUEL BECKETT Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want ... SAMUEL BECKETT And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong,... SAMUEL BECKETT And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to ... CHRIS BECKETT Let them be gone now, them and all the others, those I have used and those I have not used, give me ... SAMUEL BECKETT The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small ... SAMUEL BECKETT Was I asleep? Had I slept? SAMUEL BECKETT Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed th... SAMUEL BECKETT The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing sad... SAMUEL BECKETT I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. SAMUEL BECKETT No symbols where none intended. SAMUEL BECKETT Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual... SAMUEL BECKETT Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits. SAMUEL BECKETT The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust SAMUEL BECKETT There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet. SAMUEL BECKETT They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. SAMUEL BECKETT It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd di... SAMUEL BECKETT POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future. SAMUEL BECKETT The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less al... SAMUEL BECKETT Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory. BERNARD BECKETT I was mad of course and still am, but harmless, I passed for harmless, that's a good one. Not of cou... SAMUEL BECKETT I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no ... SAMUEL BECKETT Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. —Samuel Beckett, Wors... SAMUEL BECKETT I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in s... BERNARD BECKETT I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy. BERNARD BECKETT I write with teenagers in mind. BERNARD BECKETT There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention. BERNARD BECKETT Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. BERNARD BECKETT Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century... BERNARD BECKETT I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So... GALEN BECKETT Our biggest challenge was encouraging staff to be open-minded about anything that wasn't MS Office. ... GAVIN BECKETT So far, the experience of migrating users has proved that the cost of migration is low and ease of u... GAVIN BECKETT Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back.... SAMUEL BECKETT Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me! SAMUEL BECKETT I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be s... SAMUEL BECKETT I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps. SAMUEL BECKETT What mattered to me in my dispeopled kingdom, that in regard to which the disposition of my carcass ... SAMUEL BECKETT In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms? SAMUEL BECKETT Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be. SAMUEL BECKETT Je suis comme ça. Ou j'oublie tout de suite ou je n'oublie jamais." Samuel BECKETT, En a... SAMUEL BECKETT أستطيع أن أميز بين الأصوات الخارجية.أوراق الشجر،تأوه ا... SAMUEL BECKETT On. Stare on. Say on. Be on. Somehow on. Anyhow on. Till dim gone. At long last gone. All at long la... SAMUEL BECKETT Fail better worse now. SAMUEL BECKETT No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its wa... SAMUEL BECKETT Nothing is more real than nothing. SAMUEL BECKETT