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101 " There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket. "
― Samuel Beckett
102 " CLOV:Do you believe in the life to come?HAMM:Mine was always that. "
― Samuel Beckett , Endgame & Act Without Words
103 " HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn't know.HAMM:What? What didn't you know?NAGG:That it'd be you.(Pause.) "
― Samuel Beckett , Endgame
104 " HAMM:Yesterday! What does that mean? Yesterday!CLOV (violently):That means that bloody awful day, long ago, before this bloody awful day. I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.(Pause.) "
105 " When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line. "
― Samuel Beckett , Molloy
106 " Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. "
107 " Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. "
108 " I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them. "
109 " Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto. "
110 " Estragon: And if he doesn't come?Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time comes. "
111 " E: Well, shall we go?V: Yes, let's go.(They do not move) "
― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot
112 " Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you. "
― Samuel Beckett , Krapp's Last Tape & Embers
113 " In order to be company he must display a certain mental activity. But it need not be of a high order. Indeed it might be argued the lower the better. Up to a point. The lower the order of mental activity the better the company. Up to a point. "
― Samuel Beckett , Company
114 " ...then much, then little, then nothing. "
― Samuel Beckett , Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976
115 " Name, no, nothing is namable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun. "
116 " ...nothing ever as much as begun, nothing ever but nothing and never, nothing ever but lifeless words. "
117 " But mostly not for nothing never quite for nothing even stillest night when air too still for even the lightest leaf to sound no not to sound to carry too still for even the lightest leaf to carry the brief way here and not die the sound not die on the brief way the wave not die away. "
118 " For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of a man, even our anthropologists have realised that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite. "
― Samuel Beckett , Watt
119 " Habit is a great deadener. "
120 " We are all born mad. Some remain so. "