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James A. Baldwin

"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."

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"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."

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"With failure, you just try again."

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"Failure is a word unknown to me."

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"Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence."

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"The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure."

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"The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower."

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"The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections."

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"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council."

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"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

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"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

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"Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure."

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"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
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"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
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"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
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"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
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"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."
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"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."
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"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."
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"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
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