What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and … - Samuel Beckett

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The street kid in me says, "Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you have to do for it or when you have to do it!

Samuel Beckett

What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.

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That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

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Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.

Hands, Partition, Self, Side, Two, World

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