How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

~ Samuel Beckett

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I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.

~ Samuel Beckett

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I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments.

~ Samuel Beckett

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I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.(Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.)Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited.

~ Samuel Beckett

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Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

~ Samuel Beckett

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