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There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with b

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. – Brian Ferneyhough

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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet. – Brian Ferneyhough

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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. – Brian Ferneyhough

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With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes. – Brian Ferneyhough

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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. – Laurence Housman

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I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. Its a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but were losing a little bit of that right now. – Mike Krzyzewski

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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who youve got playing the leads. – Steven Moffat

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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. – Johann von Goethe

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Sometimes I think were alone. Sometimes I think were not. In either case, the thought is staggering. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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