Defeat Quote by Raymond Weaver

“What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to…

— zelda popkin

“Around every corner, he found himself faced with another dark recess of the human condition, and the struggles people had experienced. It showed him…

— Bella Forrest

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

“For he had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as…

— Thomas Wolfe

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“He was a complicated man, and an unhappy one. But he knew also that the world was full of simple miracles.”

— Helen Macdonald

“the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his…

— Philip Kerr

“Rather, he found himself enchanted with examples of simple human error, mundane malfunctions and mechanical glitches. The sheer variety of things that could and…

— Wendy Brenner

“Life in the country, with its lack of intellectual stimulus, has caused his natural feebleness of mind to reach a stage which borders closely…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

“He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude—all the qualities that…

— Machado de Assis

“He seemed to be buffeted from both sides, challenged by his dreams, which revolted at the compromises of reality, and assaulted by reality which…

— Walter Lippmann