Share this page: Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning. -- "Gnome" in Dublin Magazine, Vol. 9 (1934), p. 8 Estragon: Let's go. Vladimir: We can't. Estragon: Why not? Vladimir: We're waiting for Godot. Estragon: (despairingly). Ah! -- Waiting for Godot (1952) who may tell the tale of the old man? weigh absence in a scale? mete want with a span? the sum assess of the world's woes? nothingness in words enclose? -- Watt (1953) "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. ... Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more." -- Endgame (1957) time she stopped sitting at her window quiet at her window only window facing other windows other only windows all eyes all sides high and low time she stopped -- Rockaby (1980) All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Worstward Ho (1983) Share this page:

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