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• In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

  Alan Moore

  Order, Lust, Desire

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• Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

  Gore Vidal

  Usurpers, Patriot, Divine

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 21, 2016

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• If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Success, Clever

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• Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Believe, Long, Waiting

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• It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Dying, Death And Dying

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy and no reason at all. Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognised, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Loneliness, Hero

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• Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Brother, Eye, Past

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• Run and become. Become and run. Run to succeed in the outer world. Become to proceed in the inner world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sports, Running, World

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• It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

  Octavio Paz

  Reality, Discovery, Giving

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• You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Cities, Perfect

  Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

  Anthony de Mello

  Being Yourself, Fear, Failure

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• I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

  Booker T. Washington

  Ideas, People, Ready

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Thinking, Usual, World

  Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Genius”, p.36, Booklassic

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• Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.

  Laura Kasischke

  Struggle, Writing, Thinking

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• We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.

  T. S. Eliot

  Organization, Humanity, Progress

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Sweet, Blood

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• The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.

  Albert Camus

  Dream, Sweet, Party

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.55, Vintage

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• He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Ideas, Details, Way

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.117, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a prescribed set of requirements to guide you through the next few years. Focus your energy on the completion of those assignments and you’ll succeed. Guaranteed. Where’s my syllabus to guide me through life?

  Megan McCafferty

  School, Years, Envy

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• Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

  Corita Kent

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Communication, Writing

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• I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

  Richard Linklater

  Believe, Space, Magic In The World

  "Before Sunrise". www.imdb.com. January 24, 1995.

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• Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Play, Fearless

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?

  Marcel Proust

  August, Gentleman, Littles

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.2149, Delphi Classics

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• Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Opportunity, Thinking

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