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Bob Dylan523
American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941Related quotes
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet
Source: "My Winter Rose", stanza VII; p. 23., Lyrical Poems (1891)
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
“It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.”
Peter Sellers (1925–1980) British film actor, comedian and singer
As "Inspector Clouseau" in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Performances
“Fail I alone, in words and deeds?
Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
"The Last Ride Together", line 67 (1859).
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
449: I died for Beauty —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
Context: I died for Beauty — but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb,
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room — He questioned softly "Why I failed"?
"For Beauty," I replied.
"And I — for Truth, — Themself are One —
We Brethren, are", He said —
“"Why did you fail me? I didn't do nothing!" The reply, of course, is: "That's just it."”
Bel Kaufmanová book Up the Down Staircase
Part IX, ch. 42 (Bea Schachter)
Up the Down Staircase (1965)
Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author
"Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War" (1937), edited by Nancy Cunard, reprinted in The Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War (1986), edited by Valentine Cunningham