"The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year."

-- Henry Beard

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“If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.”
“I have no words for my reality.”

Source : Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often at war with each other that with Continental powers, and - except under Oliver Cromwell - scarcely very successful on those occasions when they did engage the Dutch, or the French, or the Spanish.”

Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.53, Yale University Press
“May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.”
“Myron reached for the phone and dialed Win's number. After the eighth ring he began to hang up when a weak, distant voice coughed. "Hello?" Win?" Yeah." You okay?" Hello?" Win?" Yeah." What took you so long to answer the phone?" Hello?" Win?" Who is this?" Myron." Myron Bolitar?" How many other Myrons do you know?" Myron Bolitar?" No, Myron Rockefeller." Something's wrong," Win said. What?" Terribly wrong." What are you talking about?" Some ***** is calling me at seven in the morning pretending to be my best friend." Sorry, I forgot the time.”
“My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.”
“I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.”

Source : "Irvin Kershner obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.
“In most relationships, somebody cares about the other one more and that's usually why you get out of a relationship because it's not reciprocated.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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