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Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.


Bernard Beckett

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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 It was fine. I threw 48 pitches and that was about it. The numbers could have been better, but we'll...
JOSH 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 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 When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckett
SAMUEL BECKETT It is excellent news that we will soon be able to increase our supplies of home-produced beef.
MARGARET BECKETT VLADIMIR: What do they say?
ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives.
VLADIMIR: To have lived...
SAMUEL BECKETT He is also Ivan's best man and the whole family is going over to work out wedding arrangements and t...
LIAM BECKETT There is no escape from the hours and the days. Neither from tomorrow nor from yesterday, because ye...
SAMUEL BECKETT The Big Push is for artists who have proven their skill and all they need is exposure.
JUSTIN BECKETT