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Quote by Margaret Drabble
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fa

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. – Margaret Drabble

Other quotes by Margaret Drabble

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. – Margaret Drabble

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Family
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You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes. – Margaret Drabble

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Emotions
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Other Quotes from
Failure
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The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory? – Aldrich Ames

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Failure

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. – James Baldwin

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Failure

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure. – Bryan Cranston

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Failure

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. – Jeff Tweedy

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Failure

Random Quotes

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Internet

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. – Gertrude Jekyll

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Happiness

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. – Roderick Haig-Brown, about modern fishing, A River Never Sleeps, 1946

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Fishing

When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. – William Blake

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Truth