Samuel Beckett quote: The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. ...

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.

~ Samuel Beckett ~

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Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)