Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Died: December 22, 1989, Paris, France Website Facebook X/Twitter

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French.

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Ironic? Yes. Funny? No!

by Samuel Beckett and others in Figures of Speech

If we ignore the literal reference to the heart and focus on the metaphor, the emotive based felt experience is biologically predisposed to parse the bad and remember the good. Do you see what I am saying?

Elon's Motivation

by Samuel Beckett and Thomas Sowell in Figures of Speech

Elon's Motivation Red Planet Salvation or Utopia? You're on earth. There's no cure for that. — Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good....

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