"A language is a map of our failures" — Adrienne Rich

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• A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. — Margaret Atwood
• I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road. — Kevyn Aucoin
• You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you.… — Drew Barrymore
• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend… — Ethel Barrymore
• Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. — Bernard Baruch
• Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life… — Bernard Baruch
• I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that… — Ben Affleck
• Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. — Richard Branson
• We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. — Amos Bronson Alcott
• At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects… — Albert Camus
• So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student… — Stokely Carmichael
• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. — Dale Carnegie

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