Samuel Beckett

"Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years."

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Source: Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider, Maurice Harmon (1998). “No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett & Alan Schneider”, p.492, Harvard University Press

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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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