"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
"My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art."
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Source: Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.232, Grove Press
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