Greil Marcus's Quote - No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. – Greil Marcus

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It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits. – Greil Marcus

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It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. – Greil Marcus

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Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them. – Greil Marcus

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Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, its because youve started to think of failure. – Tommy Lasorda

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I know acts and Im not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and its considered a failure and theyre dropped and thats really a shame. – Gerry Beckley

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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life. – E. Franklin Frazier

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