Failure Quote by Primo Levi

“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come…

— Tahir Shah

“When Henry telephones, I feel his voice in my veins. I want him to talk into me. I eat Henry, I breathe Henry, Henry…

— Anaïs Nin

“I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“In the words of Marcel Marceau...”

— Tim Watson

“I watch his hands, his beautiful, capable fingers. Scarred, as mine were before the Capitol erased all marks from my skin, but strong and…

— Suzanne Collins

“shook hands very cordially; and yet I always feel him shrinking sensitively from me, as a woman, a clever woman, an up to date…

— Virginia Woolf

“My heart faltered, overcome by its frightened, almost frenzied beating because of something I had just lost, or was on the point of losing…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“His hand was a lot bigger than mine, but the gentle way he laced our fingers together made me feel cared for, almost treasured.”

— S.J. West

“I studied him the way I studied all the people in my life, noticing the changes of his mood, the times when the edge…

— Roland Merullo

“We are all are cripples in some way. [Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]”

— Irving Stone

“Roland shook his head slowly. There was a lesson here, he realized, not a shining thing but something that was old and rusty and…

— Stephen King

“This hand, it is mine, yet when I pick up a pencil it has a mind of its own. It has a story to…

— Susan L. Marshall