The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. - Samuel Beckett

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The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

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About Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote mainly in English and French.

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Alternative Names: Samuel Barclay Beckett • Andrew Belis • Sam Beckett • Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe • Samuel Beḳeṭ
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