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Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.

— Samuel Beckett Molloy (1951)

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I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

Malone Dies (1951)

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Murphy (1938)

Personally of course I regret everything.

Watt (1943)

There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.

Molloy (1951)

They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

The Expelled (1946)

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