“To have a problem in common is much like love and that kind of love was often the bread that we broke among us. And some of us survived and some of us didn’t, and it was sometimes a matter of what’s called luck and sometimes a matter of having or not having the gift to endure and the will to.”
Tennessee Williams
more infosource: Tennessee Williams: Memoirs (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975), 3.
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category: community, death, endurance, love, survival
medium: Memoir
“Who climbs with toil, wheresoe’er,
Shall find wings waiting there.”
Henry Charles Beeching
more infosource: “Going Down Hill on a Bicycle: A Boy’s Song,” in In a Garden: and Other Poems (New York: Macmillan and Company, 1895), 55.
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category: bicycle, endurance, reward, wings
medium: Poetry
“I prayed ceaselessly for him, a desperate human prayer. Not for his life, no one could take that cup from him, but for the strength to endure the unendurable.”
Patti Smith
more infosource: Just Kids (New York: Ecco, 2010), 275.
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category: courage, endurance, illness, prayer, sickness, strength
medium: memoir
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.”
James Baldwin
more infosource: The Paris Review Interviews, vol. II (New York: Picador, 2007), 266.
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category: discipline, endurance, love, luck, talent
medium: interview
notes: Originally published in Issue 91 of The Paris Review, 1984.
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
more infosource: “Worstward Ho,” in Nohow on: Three Novels (New York: Grove Press, 1980), 89.
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category: effort, endurance, failure, persistence
medium: fiction
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