Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave every… - Samuel Beckett

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Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.

Samuel Beckett

Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable · September 16, 1997 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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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Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.

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ESTRAGON: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

VLADIMIR: (impatiently). Yes, yes, we’re magicians. But let us persevere in what we have resolved, before we forget.

Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything. - Samuel Beckett

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