William Saroyan Quotes on Failure
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The race was over. I was last, by ten yards. Without the slightest hesitation I protested and challenged the runners to another race, same distance, back. They refused to consider my proposal, which proved, I knew, that they were afraid to race me. I told them they knew very well I could beat them.
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You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
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I have made a fiasco of my life, but I have had the right material to work with.
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Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.