{"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":"

\"Speech<\/a>Beckett, Samuel (1906 – 1989) – Irish author, dramatist, & novelist
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\nEver tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.<\/p>\n

<\/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. “Molloy”, 1951<\/p>\n

<\/i>Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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\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. “Molloy”, 1951<\/p>\n

<\/i>Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on. \u201cThe Unnamable\u201d, 1959<\/p>\n

<\/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. “The Expelled”, 1946<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beckett, Samuel (1906 – 1989) – Irish author, dramatist, & novelist Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better. I don\u2019t like animals. It\u2019s a strange thing, I don\u2019t like men and I don\u2019t like animals. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-quotations","tag-famous-quotations-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}