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Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.—
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A lost Pearl S. Buck manuscript, found in a Texas storage unit, will be published this fall.
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When you're watching a horrible production of a normally great show
You want to be like

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Days of Heaven (1978)
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Days of Heaven, 1978 (dir. Terrence Malick)
By besieging
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Samuel Beckett interview, 1987
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I have nothing against happiness. I just don’t happen to have a talent for it.—
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.—
Samuel Beckett, Molloy
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back—
Samuel Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape
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The anger that gave him the energy to begin was gone before he had half ended. A few words used it up. So it had always been, not only with anger, not only with words.—
Samuel Beckett, Murphy
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Harold Pinter shares some of his memories of Samuel Beckett and performs the last of ‘The Unnamable.’ Originally broadcast 8 February 1990.








