"My mistakes are my life."

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Source : Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.503, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Samuel Beckett

#Mistake Quotes #My Mistakes Quotes

“Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.”
“Hitting is better than sex.”
“Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.”
“Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.”
“When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.”
“Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in the game. You can devise a foolproof defensive strategy and prepare your players for every possible eventuality. But if the players donâ€™t have a sense of oneness as a group, your efforts wonâ€™t pay off. And the bond that unites a team can be so fragile, so elusive.”
“The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is subject to the selective action of the norm of conspicuous waste, the range within which innovation can take place is somewhat restricted. The innovation must not only be more beautiful, or perhaps oftener less offensive, than that which it displaces, but it must also come up to the accepted standard of expensiveness.”
“The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.”

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