"Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure"

-- Anne Fadiman

#Heroic Quotes #Admire Quotes #Englishmen Quotes

“I belong to the tribe of Levi.”
“The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!”
“The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.”
“Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.”
“What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has”
“Fail early, fail often, in order to succeed sooner.”
“With fitness, I do Bikrams hot yoga. The gym that I have in my building is amazing. I love to do cardio and weights there.”
“To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.”

Source : "Billions and Billions of Demons". www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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