Samuel Beckett
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great. 
Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... 
I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I s... 
People got a little confused. It was like I was myself but every single fact about me was tweaked. I... 
Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and ... 
So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-... 
Just as black and white, when mixed, make grey, in many ways that's what it did to my self-ident... 
Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared wha... 
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! 
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or... 
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct ... 
I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People ... 
I don't talk about it. But when I was a little girl, my father was abusive when he drank and seemed ... 
Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me... 
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. 
My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss. 
I was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was rais... 
Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a pr... 
And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was conce... 
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each d... 
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself a... 
I fell in love with the ocean when I was just a little kid, four or five years old, I was a junior r... 
but it also made me full of self-doubt and self-loathing because I thought, 'Oh, gosh, I'm not worth... 
When I was younger, I was more self-conscious about living up to or surpassing the expectations of o... 
When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why? 
Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mi... 
My mom was a cheerleader and had me as a teenager. I remember her giving me some pom-poms and teachi... 
I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew n... 
I remembered Robyn telling me the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and how they'd survived:... 
We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... 
We were having a sleepover when I was eight or nine, and we all got to stay up late and watch the or... 
In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling po... 
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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to... 
I didn’t know how I could live with that knowledge, without it eating me up, without it poisoning ... 
I was born in a blender. 
I was born 'neath a clouded star. 
I was born to be funny. 
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. 
You know, I was chubby when I was a little girl. And I have all those issues everyone else has. But ... 
I was seen as a little weirdo. But I was certain I wasn't a weirdo. I knew who the weirdos were,... 
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made... 
It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a... 
Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing... 
This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. ... 
When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which wa... 
I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find mysel... 
When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink... 
one that was the antithesis of 'The Fragile,' which was complex. Songs flowed into each other, and i... 
I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will. 
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in ... 
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beg... 
Do we mean love, when we say love?