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Samuel Beckett Quotes about Memories

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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.

Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.

Samuel Beckett
Memories, Thinking, Mind
Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.46, Grove Press

The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.

Samuel Beckett
Memories, Mean, Stories
Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.212, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.

Samuel Beckett
Memories, Lying, Writing

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

Samuel Beckett
Memories, Should Have, One Day
Samuel Beckett (1959). “Molloy”, John Calder Pub Ltd

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