Beckett/people

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“Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“You said that my manner in that book was not serious enough—that I made people laugh in my most earnest moments. But why should I not? Why should humor and laughter be excommunicated? Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)