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"Man is not made for defeat."
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."
"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
"One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat."
"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."
"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."
"South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon."
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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other."
"To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe."
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
"I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started."
"How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time."
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