Samuel Beckett

"I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them."

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Source: The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940. Book by Samuel Beckett, 2009.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Playwright, Novelist

Samuel Beckett was an Irish playwright and novelist known for his influential works exploring absurdity and existentialism, particularly 'Waiting for Godot'.

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