"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."

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Source : George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.152, Penguin

George Eliot

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“Amis is a force unto himself There is, quite simply, no one else like him.”
“Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”
“There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you donâ€™t have to be weird or be quirky to get your job done. And two, comedy skill is not sexually transmittable. You do not have to sleep with a comedian to learn what youâ€™re doing. Male comedians will not like that advice, but it is the truth.”
“Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.”
“No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.”
“We women have gained so many more things, but we lost that kind of sexual power, the glamour power. We still love women who can still do that in culture.”

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“Fire is a symbol for so much. It's a symbol for change. It's a symbol for destruction. Out of the ashes of that comes an opportunity to start over. It's one of the greatest metaphors in nature that you can possibly lean on, especially as a songwriter. You're trying to describe either something coming to a complete and utter end or something that is in flux, or something that's on the verge of becoming something else.”
“So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.”

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