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Total quotes: 5

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Samuel Beckett

Birthname

AKA: Andrew Belis, Samuel Beckett

Birthday: April 13, 1906

Death: December 22, 1989

Educated At: Trinity College Dublin

Nationality: Irish, Ireland, Ireland

Occupations: Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Theatre Director, Essayist

Spouse: Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil

Total quotes: 5

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett, How the 20th Century’s Most Depressing Writer Became the Poster Child for Silicon Valley Success

Tagged: Don't Give Up, Failure, Trying

“What do we do now, now that we are happy?”

— Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot

Tagged: Happiness, inspiration, Pain, Suffering

“They say, That is not his life, he does not live on that. They don't see me, they don't see what my life is, they don't see what I live on, and they say, That is not his life, he does not live on that. I have lived on it until I'm old. Old enough.”

— Samuel Beckett, The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Tagged: Cascando, Samuel Beckett, obstinacy, obliviousness

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

— Samuel Beckett, Murphy

Tagged: first lines of books

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

Tagged: Success, Failure, Dreams, Motivational

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