“It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.”
Letter to Robert E. Sherwood (1946)
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American writer 1908–1981Related quotes
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
The alchemist, p. 141.
Variant: There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
“Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.”
Source: Temple of the Winds
“They just hated and feared us because our government hated and feared them.”
Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 154
Part III: La Clé des Chants (p.103)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Context: There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
On himself and his contemporaries.
Paris Review interview (1958)