"Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and apprehensiveness; it was like watching a great mathematician wielding an infinitesimal calculus, his equations approaching nearer and still nearer to the null point."

-- John Banville

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“I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time ago when he was an inexperienced, young actor and now with maturity and hindsight, he has learned not to engage the press in his personal life again.”
“It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live.”

Source : FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Nov 20, 2012
“She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didnâ€™t mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.”
“Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.”
“Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.”
“...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.”

Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.4, Oxford University Press, USA
“If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.”
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

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