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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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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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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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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. – Elbert Hubbard

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, its doomed to failure. – John Haggai

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. – Elbert Hubbard

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The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more. – Alan Hansen

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The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion. – Christopher Darden

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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. – Hannah Arendt

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In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness? – Jamie Foxx

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No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early. – Groucho Marx

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