Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. You don't have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It's that fear of going back down.
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DANIELEWSKI New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. POPPY Z. BRITE the seriousness of emotional deprivation: It is not difficult to understand how children ... MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely. EDGAR Z. FREIDENBERG My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was all... POPPY Z. BRITE Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. POPPY Z. BRITE What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are. EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. SIGMUND Z. ENGEL You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That... MARK Z. JACOBSON In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and par... POPPY Z. BRITE This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably b... POPPY Z. BRITE In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influenc... POPPY Z. BRITE No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven R. Z. SHEPPARD At some point you have to start letting people save their own life. POPPY Z. BRITE An able practitioner of glitz lit. R. Z. SHEPPARD Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign. MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comf... MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetrated by legitimate authority, they also rega... EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG An old man loved is winter with flowers. EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG [Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated... R. Z. SHEPPARD His reserve of disdain appears endless. 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If you can't fix it, give it a spin. MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish so... POPPY Z. BRITE Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both... MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Let the night come. We are not afraid. POPPY Z. BRITE The last dying days of summer, fall coming on fast. A cold night, the first of the season, a change ... POPPY Z. BRITE Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground. MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI You wouldn't believe how much harder it's getting for me to just leave my studio. It's really sad. I... MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shi... MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful. MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience a... MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been j... MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one ... MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Of course there always will be darkness but I realize now something inhabits it. Historical or not. ... MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI