“Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now.”

—  Samuel Beckett , Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp's Last Tape (1958)

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Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989

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