Quote by Brian Ferneyhough
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 speak of cycles, I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate. – Brian Ferneyhough

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respect
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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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respect
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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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Failure
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It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure. – Arthur C. Danto

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Failure

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett

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Failure

When I got Jacobs Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasnt allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and Id be,out of there. – Elizabeth Pena

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Failure

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never – pleasurable. – Michael Morpurgo

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Failure

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What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others. – Confucius

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The famous saying God is love, it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the otherness and terror of God. – Charles Williams

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famous

My life isnt that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just cant talk on the phone. Hes too crippled and shy, and thats almost harder. Hes there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, its just impossible to have a relationship. – Joey Lauren Adams

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dad

It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance. – Ashley Montagu, about California

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