"There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success."

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Source : "The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm".

Max Beerbohm

#Failure Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Said Quotes

“If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.”
“I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.”

Source : "Aziz Ansari gets candid about love: “elusive and sadly ephemeral”". Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.
“It's my policy not to review funerals.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.54, Granta Books
“He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.”
“The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.”

Source : "Eiffel Tower Celebrates 125th Birthday". Interview With Jeremy Hobson, wwno.org. April 4, 2014.
“I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.”
“I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can't grow a beard if you shave”

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