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
saving-up age said
How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.
names eggs phantoms
In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
misery enough pauses
Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
looks misery speechless
You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.
garden circles atheism
Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.