Samuel Beckett  - Quotes

 The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said. 

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Samuel Beckett  - Quotes

 I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.

(Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.)

Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited.
 

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Samuel Beckett  - Quotes

 The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.) 

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Samuel Beckett  - Quotes

 I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in. 

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Samuel Beckett  - Quotes

 Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everything always went on for ever. (Pause.) 

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Samuel Beckett  - Quotes

 I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments. 

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Samuel Beckett  - Quotes

 The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. 

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Samuel Beckett  - Quotes

 All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. 

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Samuel Beckett  - Quotes

 Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?

Henry: Not a living soul.

Ada: I thought as much. (Pause.) When we longed to have it to ourselves there was always someone. Now that it does not matter the place is deserted.
 

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Samuel Beckett  - Quotes

 Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you. 

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Samuel Beckett  - Quotes

 How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life. 

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Samuel Beckett  - Quotes

 Poor Willie - running out - ah well - can't be helped - just one of those old things - another of those old things - just can't be cured - cannot be cured - ah yes - poor dear Willie - good Lord! - good God! - ah well - no worse - no better, no worse - no change - no pain - hardly any - great thing that - nothing like it - pure ... what? - what? - ah yes - poor Willie - no zest - for anything - no interest - in life - poor dear Willie - sleep for ever - marvellous gift - in my opinion - always said so - wish I had it 

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Samuel Beckett  - Quotes

 Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. 

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