Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckettwas a French-Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth13 April 1906
CityFoxrock, Ireland
CountryIreland
art world crafts
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
moving light darkness
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.)
funny hilarious ireland-and-the-irish
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
trying synthesizers joyce
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
shining looks goes-on
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
writing silence matter
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
laughter tears gaelic
Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.
silence language quiet
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
somewhere-else laughing quality
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
motivational
Better hope deferred than none.
country heart bills
What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!
happiness speak
The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.
clothes
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
progress way
It was the only way to progress, to stop.