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I have said this many times that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men but not for mediocre women and we really have to work very very hard.
So the poet who wants to be something that he cannot be and is a failure in plain life makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
Quotes By Allen Tate
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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the...
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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically...
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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase...
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Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence...
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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms dreams or repressions as origins of...
Quotes About Failure
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The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West so was my...
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There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure and that's if we quit.
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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
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It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
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Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because...
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Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot...
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I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
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Ken Lay has does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of...
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It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his...