Samuel Beckett
"When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckettas told by Bill Moyer in the Foreword he wrote for, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson. Afterword by Ann Patchett"
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"When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckettas told by Bill Moyer in the Foreword he wrote for, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson. Afterword by Ann Patchett"
"عندما نقرأ، يأتينا صوت كما في الظلام ويهمس: "تخيّل!" صمويل بيكيت، كما رواه بيل موير في المقدمة التي كتبها لكتاب "المكتبة العامة: مقال مصور" لروبرت داوسون. خاتمة بقلم آن باتشيت."
Samuel Beckett
"There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket."
"هناك لحظتان تستحقان العناء في الكتابة: الأولى حين تبدأ، والأخرى حين تلقيها في سلة المهملات."
Samuel Beckett
"Estragon: They're too big Vladimir: Perhaps you'll have socks some day"
"إستراغون: إنها كبيرة جدًا.
فلاديمير: لعلّك تملك جوارب ذات يوم."
Samuel Beckett
"The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said."
"تئن الأرض كأنما تتنهد، وتهطل آخر قطرات المطر من سماء خالية من الغيوم. سأل صبي صغير، وقد مد يديه ناظراً إلى السماء الزرقاء، أمه كيف يمكن أن يحدث مثل هذا. قالت له: اذهب إلى الجحيم."
Samuel Beckett
"Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little."
Samuel Beckett
"Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange."
Samuel Beckett
"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
Samuel Beckett
"Estragon: You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. I feel better alone, too. Vladmir: Then why do you always come crawling back?Estragon: I don't know."
Samuel Beckett
"Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle."
Samuel Beckett
"It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible."
Samuel Beckett
"Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett
"drill one hole after another into [language] until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through – I cannot imagine a higher goal for today’s writer."
Samuel Beckett
"One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second."
Samuel Beckett
"The only sin is the sin of being born"
Samuel Beckett
"If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love."
Samuel Beckett
"Words are the clothes thoughts wear."
Samuel Beckett
"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."
Samuel Beckett
"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett
"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found."
Samuel Beckett
"You're on Earth. There's no cure for that."
Samuel Beckett
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