"I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always. Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. The years pass and one has only one life. If one has a thing at all one must do it and keep on and on and on trying to do it better."

-- Iris Murdoch

#Failure Quotes #Book Quotes #Years Quotes

“Comedy is second nature for me.”
“The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.”
“Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.”
“The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.”

Source : "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.
“In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.”
“You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?”
“Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.”
“Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association”

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