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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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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I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing Ive ever done. Once I was married, I didnt want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long. – Shannen Doherty

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Failure

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. – Mark Skousen

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Failure

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections. – Hart Crane

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Failure

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. – Amelia Earhart

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Failure

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. – Francis Bacon

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Experience

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. – Robinson Jeffers

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Even now I cant trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid. – Clara Bow

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Trust

It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. – Shanna LaFleur

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