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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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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is. – Allan Bloom

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Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. – William Empson

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Failure

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino

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Failure

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. – George Canning

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The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, cant be avoided by some religious dogma of a President whos is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesnt. – Rosie ODonnell

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Were all in this alone. – Lily Tomlin

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