A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of failure-as if it mattered. It seemed to him now that such thoughts were mean, unworthy of what his life had been.
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Samuel Beckett
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the...
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Betty Friedan
I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.
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Woody Allen
We are gods with anuses.
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Ernest Becker
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