| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 6321 |
| QUOTATION: | I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. “Three Dialogues,” by Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit, p. 17, in Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Martin Esslin, Prentice-Hall (1965). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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