"It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure."

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Source : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”

Ada Leverson

“To see what is in front of oneâ€™s nose needs a constant struggle.”
“.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.”
“It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.”
“I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.”
“Even though they are paid differently, everyone has to feel appreciated.”
“I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.”
“Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that, where intention is sound, action is sound, and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt”
“What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.”

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