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Failed Quotes by Richard Wright
- It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense…
- 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.…
- Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...
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- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila
- All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we… — Gaylord Nelson
- We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will. — Thomas A. Edison
- My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they… — George R. R. Martin
- Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I… — Roseanne Barr
- Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be… — Arnold Bennett
- Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the… — Ambrose Bierce