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"But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer."
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"For one to succeed, one must be a assured of failure."
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"Failure is temporary but hope is forever."
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"Rather than allowing your failures to define you, learn from your experience to do better next time."
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"Failure is an opportunity to reflect and realize."
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"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"
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"Any blunder committed in the past opens the avenue for the success of the future. However, the success of the future massively is fueled by the how positively the mistakes of the past are handled!"
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"The fear of failure is a liability."
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"Failure is inevitable. It teaches us things about ourselves that we could have learnt any other way."
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"Failure will teach you more wisdom than a great success."
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"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."
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"But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality."
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"The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men."
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"Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe."
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"I have not been a success, and probably never will be."
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"I became a writer in spite of my environments."
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"Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen."
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"I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts."
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"It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments."
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"But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer."
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
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