Quotes From "Texts For Nothing And Other Shorter Prose 19501976" By Samuel Beckett

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Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound. Samuel Beckett
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With a cluther of limbs and organs, all that is needed to live again, to hold out a little time, I'll call that living, I'll say it's me, I'll get standing, I'll stop thinking, I'll be too busy, getting standing, staying standing, stirring about, holding out, getting to tomorrow, tomorrow week, that will be ample, a week will be ample, a week in spring, that puts the jizz in you. Samuel Beckett
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He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having something to say he finally decided not to say it. Samuel Beckett
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There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough. Samuel Beckett
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...then much, then little, then nothing. Samuel Beckett
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Name, no, nothing is namable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun. Samuel Beckett
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...nothing ever as much as begun, nothing ever but nothing and never, nothing ever but lifeless words. Samuel Beckett
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But mostly not for nothing never quite for nothing even stillest night when air too still for even the lightest leaf to sound no not to sound to carry too still for even the lightest leaf to carry the brief way here and not die the sound not die on the brief way the wave not die away. Samuel Beckett