{"id":1306,"date":"2013-09-14T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T11:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2013-09-14T11:39:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T11:39:28","slug":"samuel-beckett-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=1306","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Beckett quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Speech-marks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-487\" style=\"width: 114px; height: 113px;\" alt=\"Speech marks\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Speech-marks-150x150.png\" width=\"120\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a>Beckett, Samuel (1906 &#8211; 1989) &#8211; Irish author, dramatist, &amp; novelist<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><i><br \/>\nEver tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><i>I don\u2019t like animals. It\u2019s a strange thing, I don\u2019t like men and I don\u2019t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me. &#8220;Molloy&#8221;, 1951<\/p>\n<p><\/i><i>Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.<br \/>\n<\/i><i><br \/>\nThe 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. &#8220;Molloy&#8221;, 1951<\/p>\n<p><\/i><i>Where I am, I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;ll never know, in the silence you don&#8217;t know, you must go on, I can&#8217;t go on, I&#8217;ll go on. \u201cThe Unnamable\u201d, 1959<\/p>\n<p><\/i><i><i>Yes, I don\u2019t know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief. &#8220;The Expelled&#8221;, 1946<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beckett, Samuel (1906 &#8211; 1989) &#8211; Irish author, dramatist, &amp; novelist Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better. 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