For it is difficult to speak, even any old rubbish, and at the same time focus one's attention on another point, where one's true interest lies, as f… - Samuel Beckett

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For it is difficult to speak, even any old rubbish, and at the same time focus one's attention on another point, where one's true interest lies, as fitfully defined by a feeble murmur seeming to apologize for not being dead. And what it seemed to me I heard then, concerning what I should do, and say, in order to have nothing further to do, nothing further to say, it seemed to me I only barely heard it, because of the noise I was engaged in making elsewhere, in obedience to the unintelligible terms of an incomprehensible damnation.

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

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