“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.”
Source: What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
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George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
“I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.”
Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian
And I'm gonna stay here and rock the mike until the next Korean-American, fag hag, shit starter, girl comic, trash talker comes up and takes my place!
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“To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
“But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.”
Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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