Failure Quote by Shirley Hazzard

“... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.”

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It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid…

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I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.

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Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

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When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts,…

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“But that's a way to go on loving--a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in…

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“I see that you are highly defensive." . . . Caro said, "I withhold my analysis of your own attitude.”

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“... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping…

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“I said, "Some people do know more than others. That contributes to the impression that someone, somewhere,knows the whole thing." [p. 38]”

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“Dark had meant Dora, had meant words and events sordid with self. Struggling to the light from Dora's darkness, Caro had acquired conscience and…

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Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

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“Sometimes, as now, her heart twisted and broke under his determination to wound her. At others, she was almost convinced that she felt nothing…

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“Chief Coordinator of DALTO – the Department of Aid to the Less technically Oriented, working to induce backwards nations to come forwards.”

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No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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First action was a mistake. What about the second? third? fourth and fifth?...Mehn you are bad...

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God's love never fail :)

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“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)”

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I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad…

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Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

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