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Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change. — Margaret Beckett

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places. — Samuel Beckett

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones? — Samuel Beckett

HAMM: We're not beginning to ... to ... mean something?
CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something!
(Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one! — Samuel Beckett

The essential doesn't change. — Samuel Beckett

Stay with me, Becks. Dream of me. I am ever yours. — Brodi Ashton

Estragon: we lost our rights?
vladimir: we got rid of them. — Samuel Beckett

Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace. — Margaret Beckett

Beckett . . . Joyce . . . Proust . . . Shakespeare — Harold Bloom

All roads were right for me, a wrong road was an event, for me. — Samuel Beckett

... all that matters is how to rise, for you are half out of your mind. — Samuel Beckett

Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea. — Samuel Beckett

At last I began to think, that is to say to listen harder. — Samuel Beckett

Besides, Mrs. Quesnt, did it never occur to you that we are not changing at all-that rather, we are simply becoming more ourselves? — Galen Beckett

To be together again, after so long, who love the sunny wind, the windy sun, in the sun, in the wind, that is perhaps something, perhaps something. — Samuel Beckett

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food. — Grant Achatz

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint. — William Beckett

Her mind was a press of formless questions, mingling and crumbling limply away. — Samuel Beckett

You must go on.
I can't go on.
I'll go on. — Samuel Beckett

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. — Samuel Beckett

Clov: If I don't kill the rat, he'll die.
Hamm: That's right. — Samuel Beckett

Another happy day. — Samuel Beckett

And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another. — Samuel Beckett

Try. Fail. Fail again. Fail better. — Samuel Beckett

What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers! — Samuel Beckett

It's not me, it's not true, it's not me, I'm far. — Samuel Beckett

The only sin is the sin of being born — Samuel Beckett

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent. — Samuel Beckett

Don't ever die in my head again. Please, never again, — Debra Anastasia

I think a call to Chaos is in order," Blake said, looking at Cole.
Cole nodded, and Beckett smiled. "Thanks," he said. — Debra Anastasia

The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred. — Samuel Beckett

Your mind, never active at anytime, is now even less than ever so. — Samuel Beckett

I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all. — Samuel Beckett

The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed. — Samuel Beckett

She's gonna know the rooster's in the hen house when she doesn't find me there, so we'd better hurry. — Georgia Cates

Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians. — Samuel Beckett

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle. — Samuel Beckett

Cole grabbed a fistful of his own hair. Beckett, I met the most amazing girl this morning. I can't think straight. — Debra Anastasia

You have to make your choice and live with your choice. — Margaret Beckett

Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written. — Terry Teachout

Words fail, there are times when even they fail. — Samuel Beckett

To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was. — Samuel Beckett

Old endgame lost of old, play and lose and have done with losing. — Samuel Beckett

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. — Samuel Beckett

Yes, light, there is no other word for it. — Samuel Beckett

I don't join or leave things lightly. — Margaret Beckett

The little cloud drifting before their glorious sun will darken the earth as long as I please. — Samuel Beckett

All mankind is us, whether we like it or not. — Samuel Beckett

What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life? — Gary Lutz

Aren't you supposed to be Jesus' bitch? — Debra Anastasia

Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one. — Samuel Beckett

For I shall be far away, before these lines are read, in a place where no one will dream of coming to look for me. — Samuel Beckett

Does it really matter which hand is employed to absterge the podex? — Samuel Beckett

Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much — Galen Beckett

Habit is a great deadener. — Samuel Beckett

I seem to grasp at certain moments the nuance that divides bad from worse. — Samuel Beckett

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind. — William Beckett

Say that again said the red gash in the white putty. — Samuel Beckett

Beckett's gruff voice moved her veil as he spoke, Happy wedding, Whitebread. But please, don't worry about this. — Debra Anastasia

you don't feel a mouth on you, you don't feel your mouth any more, no need of a mouth, the words are everywhere, inside me, outside me... — Samuel Beckett

Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them! — Samuel Beckett

I thought much about myself. That is to say I often took a quick look at myself, closed my eyes, forgot, began again. — Samuel Beckett

When your lips move, it makes me want to take my pants off right here. Beckett went in for a kiss. — Debra Anastasia

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays. — Harold Pinter

In a flicker of my lids whole days have flown. — Samuel Beckett

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet. — Samuel Beckett

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed. — Wendy Beckett

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. — Samuel Beckett

Even though his voice kept its squeakiness, he never forgot to hold his head high. Beckett had paid dearly to defend him, so he made it count. — Debra Anastasia

Europeans have depth but not distance while North Americans have distance but not depth. — Samuel Beckett

From our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself. — Bernard Beckett

I can't do this anymore if it's not with you. Fuck me straight to hell." ~Eve to Beckett — Debra Anastasia

But it is useless to dwell on this period of my life. If I go on long enough calling that my life I'll end up by believing it. — Samuel Beckett

Vladimir: That passed the time.
Estragon: It would have passed in any case.
Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly. — Samuel Beckett

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the
good old days when we wished we were dead. — Samuel Beckett

Our lives, and sometimes deaths, are stories written in bone. — Simon Beckett

Instead of sounding like a Beckett-style threat, Dr. Lavender's observation solidified something. Livia would live for love. Today will count. — Debra Anastasia

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings. — Samuel Beckett

Fortunately I did not need affection. — Samuel Beckett

Do you believe in the life to come? Mine was always that. — Samuel Beckett

The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain. — Samuel Beckett

Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head. — Samuel Beckett

Her smile was lighter fluid to his testosterone. He was full caveman for a few heartbeats. — Debra Anastasia

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena. — Samuel Beckett

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards. — Samuel Beckett

If I told you once, I told you a million times: you're a handsome motherfucker. I'm almost gay for you. — Debra Anastasia

Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty. — Justin Beckett

To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day? — Samuel Beckett

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them. — Bernard Beckett

I write with teenagers in mind. — Bernard Beckett

One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second. — Samuel Beckett

And I'll be myself at last, as a starveling belches his odourless wind, before the bliss of a coma. — Samuel Beckett

When you're in the shit up to your neck, there's nothing left to do but sing. — Samuel Beckett

Dim light source unknown. — Samuel Beckett

our questions, but the need to do this — Bernard Beckett

I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy. — Bernard Beckett

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. — Samuel Beckett

God is love. Yes or no? No. — Samuel Beckett

All hangs together, I am in chains. — Samuel Beckett

I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues. — Josh Beckett