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• Better hope deferred than none.

  Samuel Beckett

  Motivational

  Samuel Beckett (2014). “Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

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  Tolerance, Aversion, Indifference

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Murphy”, p.157, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

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  What Matters, Who I Am, Knowing

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.219, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.

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  Rams, Useless, Want

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Watt”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• I can't go on. I'll go on.

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  Grieving, Tragedy, Goes On

  The Unnamable (1959)

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• Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

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  Inspiring, Failure, Trying

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• I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

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  Asking For Help, Tone, Helping

  Samuel Beckett (1967). “Stories & Texts for Nothing”, p.62, Grove Press

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• There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

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  Heart, Dripping

  "Endgame". Play by Samuel Beckett, 1957.

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• What do we do now, now that we are happy?

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  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.415, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

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  Alternatives, Sun, Beckett

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.71, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.

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  Memories, Thinking, Mind

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.46, Grove Press

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• What are we doing here, that is the question.

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  Life, Waiting For Godot, Godot

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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• All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

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  Waiting For Godot, Godot, Cruel Fate

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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• All life long, the same questions, the same answers.

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  Long, Answers, Long Life

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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• I am still alive then. That may come in useful.

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  Alive, May, Stills

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.236, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

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  Life Is, Habit, Succession

  Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit (1965). “Proust”, Riverrun Press

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• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

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  Teaching, Learning, Tunes

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.329, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!

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  Too Late, Waiting For Godot, Moments

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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• Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

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  Rain, House, Midnight

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.186, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

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  Want, Enjoy, Knows

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• Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.

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  Time

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.51, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

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  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.192, Grove Press

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• Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.

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  Running, Flying, Calm

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.192, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

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  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

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  Waiting, Motto, My Motto

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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