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Samuel Beckett, Molloy Quotes: [Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.
         

[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.


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