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Quote by Alice James
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. – Alice James

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One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. – Alice James

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How sick one gets of being good, how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness. – Alice James

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Id like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse. – Susie Orbach

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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. – Samuel Beckett

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Im living life as best I can – but Im not exempt from failure and making bad choices. – LeAnn Rimes

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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. – Susan Sontag

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Life is a combination of magic and pasta. – Federico Fellini

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90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. – Colin Powell

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The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. – Rutherford B. Hayes

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