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Paul (formerly known as Current)
Paul (formerly known as Current)
rated a book it was amazing
Reading for the 2nd time
read in March 2012
“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure”
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“So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.”
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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
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“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Worstward Ho
― Worstward Ho
“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
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