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Source: Waiting for Godot

“Lucky's monologue: "(...)the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running cycling swimming flying floating riding gliding conating camogie skating tennis of all kinds dying flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all kinds hockey of all sorts peniciline and succedanea in a word(...)”

Waiting Godot

Book:Waiting for Godot

Source: Waiting for Godot

“VLADIMIR: Dance, hog!”

Waiting Godot Samuel Beckett

Book:Waiting for Godot

Source: Waiting for Godot

“Pozzo: The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not the speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier that its predecessors Let us not speak well of it either. It is true the population has increased.”

Waiting For Godot

Book:Waiting for Godot

Source: Waiting for Godot

“MOST PEOPLE IN the West spend their time waiting for Godot, but of course he never comes. They also wait for the Messiah, but we know he always arrives a day too late. What is everyone waiting for? Divine intervention? The Deus ex machina that solves every problem? Don’t you get it? – no one’s ever coming. Ever. The world-historic figures, the men and women of destiny, aren’t waiting. They’re out doing things, being active, making things happen.”

Waiting Passivity Godot

Book:The Triune Brain, Hypnosis and the Evolution of Consciousness

Source: The Triune Brain, Hypnosis and the Evolution of Consciousness

“Estragon: And if he doesn't come? Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time comes.”

Waiting Godot

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Gimdyti apsižergus kapą ir kančiose gimti. Duobėje duobkasys svajingai tvarkosi įrankius. Lieka laiko susenti. Ore skamba mūsų riksmai.”

Birth Lithuanian Godot Waiting For Godot Samuel Beckett

Book:Waiting for Godot

Source: Waiting for Godot

“I am interested in the shape of ideas, even if I do not believe in them”

Ideas Thoughts Theatre Thought Beckett Godot

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. (pause) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. (Pause.) I can't go on! (Pause.) What have I said?”

Grave Godot Vladimir

Author:Samuel Beckett

“A cheval sur une tombe et une naissance difficile. Du fond du trou, rêveusement, le fossoyeur applique ses fers. On a le temps de vieillir. L'air est plein de nos cris.”

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Book:Waiting for Godot

Source: Waiting for Godot

“I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great - it travelled into immediate communication.”

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Author:Sam Waterston

“I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.”

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Author:Patrick Stewart

“Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.”

Government Turns Waiting Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Gianfranco Fini

“As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, its much more resonant.”

Kids Strangeness Godot

Author:Nathan Lane

“But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!”

Moments Mankind Late Too Late Godot Waiting For Godot Cruel Fate

Book:The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

“What are we doing here, that is the question.”

Life Existence Godot Waiting For Godot

Book:The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

“In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of "Waiting for Godot" better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science.”

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Author:Elliott Sober

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

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Author:Samuel Beckett

“There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.”

Men Life Hate Feet Blame Faults Boots Godot Waiting For Godot

Book:Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

Source: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”

World Quality Laughing Tears Constant Somewhere Else Weeping Godot Waiting For Godot Tears And Crying

Author:Samuel Beckett

“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”

Giving Light Night Time Birth Graves Instant Gleam Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.”

Giving Impression Magician Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!”

Speak Touch Me Stay With Me Godot Waiting For Godot

Book:I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

“Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”

Giving Done Enough Light Night Time Dies Born Birth One Day Blind Graves Dumb Instant Deaf Gleam Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.”

Waiting Why Not Godot Waiting For Godot

Book:I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

“Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.”

Thinking I Can Goes On Moving On Encouraging Giving Up Is Not An Option Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Samuel Beckett

“To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.”

Men Littles Dies Crosses Forgotten Every Man Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.”

Happens Awful Bored Inertia Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Samuel Beckett

“We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!”

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Book:The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

“We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.”

Grows Air Cry Habit Godot Waiting For Godot

Book:The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

World Want Said Waiting Audience Happened Sweet Judgment Performances Management Theatre Tickets Royal Confirmation Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Ian Mckellen

“I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.”

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Book:Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel

Source: Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.”

World Wells Speak Laughing Generations Tears Constant Ill Population Quantity Somewhere Else Our Generation Predecessors Godot Waiting For Godot

Book:The collected works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett

“To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?”

Thinking Morrow Godot Waiting For Godot

Book:I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

“As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.”

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Author:Phil Foglio

“We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.”

Different Waiting Godot St Benedict

Book:After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

Source: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

“Waiting for Godot has achieved a theoretical impossibility — a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.”

Firsts Different Play Happens Waiting Audience Written Things Happen Seats Impossibility Theoretical Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Vivian Mercier

“We all are born mad. Some remain so.”

Born Mad Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence, being a very good analyst of how terrible and monstrous American culture was. That they liked, but they wouldn't publish him. I guess it must have been the sex. With Beckett, it must have been the hopelessness.”

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Author:Barney Rosset

“Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!”

Chance Fate Late Existentialism Too Late Foul Godot Waiting For Godot Cruel Fate

Book:The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

“What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come”

Knows Happens Waiting Answers Clear One Thing Blessed Confusion Existentialism Immense Godot Waiting For Godot Cruel Fate

Book:Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

Source: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

“All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.”

Mankind Godot Waiting For Godot Cruel Fate

Book:The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

“Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.”

Children Fall Winning Waiting Falling In Love Lottery Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Ian Mckellen

“If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.”

Ifs Said Godot

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.”

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Author:John Lahr

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