"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-bui...

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Words are all we have.
More Samuel Beckett quotes
"Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
"There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
"I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, ...
"I don’t know: perhaps it’s a dream, all a dream. (That would surprise me.) I’ll wake, in the silence, and never sleep again. (It will be I?) Or dream ...
"But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.