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"I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed."
"It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed."
"It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'"
"The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience."
"Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India."
"If you believe in yourself and have passion, you can succeed."
"If you truly want to succeed, be prepared to go the extra mile."
"Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure."
"If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking."
"I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed."
"In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion."
"The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding."
"Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other."
"I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs."
"Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death."
"To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful."
"Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since."
"When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it."
"We’ve got customers. We’ve got suppliers. We’ve got employees. We’ve got unions. We’ve got communities. We’ve got all of these things that go into making up whether a business succeeds or fails."
"If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity."
