Mentions (5)
"Even the neoliberal ghouls who run our economy recognise that the likes of Joyce and Yeats and Beckett and Oscar Wilde and Seamus Heaney are central to our 'national brand' and it makes good business sense to set aside a bit of money and ensure Irish writing doesn't lose its association with quality"
"Do I demand that Normal People should be on par with the works of Joyce, Wilde or Beckett? No. But I do expect (or hope?) much more thoughtful taste and consideration from the literary world when electing something as the next great novel or someone like Sally Rooney as the great next novelist."
"the trilogy by beckett, this one is second favorite of mine. It is just this bizarre nightmarish quality to it. It is jazz music of literature, some might hate it, some will absolutely love it once you start to appreciate what it is doing."
"my late Grandmother's favourite play was the same as mine - Samuel Beckett's masterpiece Waiting for Godot"
"November 19th, 1963
My very dear Alan,
I know your sorrow and I know that for the likes of us there is no ease for the heart to be had from words or reason and that in the very assurance of sorrow's fading there is more sorrow. So I offer you only my deeply affectionate and compassionate thoughts "