Molloy (edit title/settings)

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• Molloy: The main character and also the narrator of the Part One. He describes himself as a crippled old beggar, which doesn't have a very good memory, then he fills his mind's blanks with scenes that he makes up himself.

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• “To do not want to say, to do not know what to say, to can not say what one believes to want to say, and always say it or almost, this is the main thing to keep in mind, in the heat of writing.”

  Molloy, on writing

• “Até o dia em que, não podendo mais, nesse mundo que para você não tem braços, você pega nos seus cachorros sarnentos, os carrega o tempo que é preciso para que eles o amem, para que você os ame, depois os joga fora.”

  Molloy, on love

• “Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.”

  Molloy

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• For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

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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.

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• For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.

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• It’s so nice to know where you’re going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.

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• The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

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• My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that?

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• I speak in the present tense, it is so easy to speak in the present tense, when speaking of the past. It is the mythological present, don’t mind it.

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• What I need now is stories, it took me a long time to know that, and I’m not sure of it.

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• all that inner space one never sees, the brain and heart and other caverns where thought and feeling dance their sabbath, all that too quite differently disposed.

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Followed by Malone Dies.

Preceded by The Rebel, and followed by The End of the Affair.

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1. Samuel Beckett (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Patrick Bowles (Translator)

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• Dewey: 843.914

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British › Classics › Beckett, Samuel
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( B ) › Beckett, Samuel
• Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics