"I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them."

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Source : Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.329, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Samuel Beckett

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“Your life will become better by making other lives better.”
“Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”
“Fear first made gods in the world.”

Source : Publius Papinius Statius, David Roy Shackleton Bailey (2003). “L207n Statius Ii”, p.199, Harvard University Press
“I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in a position to witness. I realize now that as a consequence of having lived the life I have, quite apart from the one, as I understand it, lived by most American writers, maybe I now know some things and have some stories to tell that others don't know about or wouldn't be able to tell. Maybe there's an intrinsic value in that lived experience and knowledge, though of course what you do with it is everything.”

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“We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there.”
“Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.”
“Well, Harry Reid and other members of congress, they're just furious over this Olympic uniform deal. He says we should burn the uniforms, and it's an embarrassment and a disgrace. Not as embarrassing as congress constantly borrowing money from the Chinese, but still embarrassing.”
“Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.55

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