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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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Failure
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War remains the decisive human failure. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Failure

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. – Edward Dowden

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Failure

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. – John Drinkwater

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Failure

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom. – Cat Cora

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Failure

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Funny is funny. – Don Rickles

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Getting along with men isnt whats truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man. – Phyllis McGinley

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It isnt safe to sit in judgment upon another persons illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet. – Mark Twain

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. – James Baldwin

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