
“Every generation loses the messiah it has failed to deserve.”
Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 23
Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 38
Source: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
“Every generation loses the messiah it has failed to deserve.”
Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 23
Conversation with Jean Martet (1 June 1928), Ch. 30
Clemenceau, The Events of His Life (1930)
“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.”
Variant: Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World
In his speech "The Impending Total Collapse of Israel" at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, January 30, 1996 as quoted in “The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History”, by Andrew Bostom, Prometheus Books, c.2008, pg. 682.
1990s
An answer to a student's question as to why he writes in long sentences during his Writer-in-Residence time at the University of Virginia in 1957-1958. Faulkner in the University, p. 84
Faulkner in the University (1959)
"In Praise of Dissent", New York Times (16 December 1956)
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Worstward Ho (1983)
Variant: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Context: All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.