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Quote by Roddy Doyle
Schools dont really allow failure and yet its a valid part of any

Schools dont really allow failure and yet its a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing. – Roddy Doyle

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No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isnt yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. – Roddy Doyle

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Experience
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Roddy Doyle
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When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself – am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do. – Roddy Doyle

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teacher
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Roddy Doyle
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Other Quotes from
Failure
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In America, theres a failure to appreciate Europes leading role in the world. – Barack Obama

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Failure

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities. – Justin Guarini

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Failure

The point is not to take the worlds opinion as a guiding star but to go ones way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. – Gustav Mahler

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Failure

All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure. – Carl Sandburg

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Failure

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I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get. – Richard M. Nixon

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Theres nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. Theres nothing more unappealing. – Eric Wareheim

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Some people believe that football is a matter of life and death. Im very dissappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much more important than that. – Bill Shankley

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I didnt wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. Were all that forever, and Ive just grown older. I mean, I havent lost anything. Ive gained a few things. – Paul Westerberg

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Morning