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Truman Capote
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
Truman Capote

“Our knowledge advances not when we have the best theory, or the best data, or the best lab, but when we have really good problems”
Jay Rosen

John Steinbeck
“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
John Steinbeck

Anne  Michaels
“There was no energy of a narrative in my family, not even the fervour of an elegy.”
Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

“Russia is usually readier to ascribe misfortune to conspiracies rather than to the more probable screwup.”
Dominic Ziegler, Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires

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Ed
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124 books | 752 friends

Mark Do...
134 books | 6,120 friends

Chris
0 books | 62 friends

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