Failed Quotes

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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.… — Richard Wright
Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two… — Joseph Heller
I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines… — Haruki Murakami
He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him,… — John Fowles
What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing… — Chuck Klosterman
And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her… — Gaston Leroux
Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical… — Bertrand Russell
I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we… — C.S. Lewis
For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Never admit defeat and ask for a quick death! Die first, then admit defeat! If you are defeated but didn't die, it just means you… — Tite Kubo
pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer,… — Haruki Murakami
It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code… — Orson Scott Card
All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like… — Douglas Coupland
we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we… — Joan Didion
My life failed on the very day I was born. — Robert Bly
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls. — Randy Pausch
Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was… — Donna Tartt
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from… — Robert M. Pirsig
What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought… — Louise Penny
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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