“I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”
― Endgame
― Endgame
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
― Waiting for Godot
― Waiting for Godot
“I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.”
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“I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.”
― Malone Dies
― Malone Dies
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