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- Failure is not an option if success is just a matter of trying harder
(W. Bruce Cameron, "A Dog's Purpose")
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- His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to accomplish anything.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.
(Tom Robbins, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues")
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- Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...
(Stephen King, "The Dark Tower")
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- Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
(Robin Hobb, "Assassin's Apprentice")
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- Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.
(Paulo Coelho, "Eleven Minutes")
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- Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.
(Philip K. Dick, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?")
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- Most days, for the last dozen or so years, I attributed to Charlie, or at least to our breakup, most things that have gone wrong for me. Like: I wouldn't have packed in college; I wouldn't have gone to work in Record and Tape; I wouldn't have had an unsatisfactory personal life. This is the woman who broke my heart, who ruined my life, this woman is single-handedly responsible for my poverty and directionlessness and failure, the woman I dreamed about regularly for a good five years.
(Nick Hornby, "High Fidelity")
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- I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.
(Orson Scott Card, "Ender's Game")
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- Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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- In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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- Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume to correct attitude to her unchosen faith. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as taking pride in it.
(Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being")
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- You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
(Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet")
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- Victory gave us such insane delusions of grandeur that we helped start a world war we hadn't a chance of winning. But now that we are losing again, everything has taken a turn for the better, and we will certainly come out on top again if we succeed in being defeated.
(Joseph Heller, "Catch-22")
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- Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
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