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“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.”

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source: Tennessee Williams: Memoirs (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975), 3.

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“Who climbs with toil, wheresoe’er,
Shall find wings waiting there.”

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source: “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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“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.”

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source: Just Kids (New York: Ecco, 2010), 275.

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“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.”

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source: The Paris Review Interviews, vol. II (New York: Picador, 2007), 266.

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notes: Originally published in Issue 91 of The Paris Review, 1984.

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

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source: “Worstward Ho,” in Nohow on: Three Novels (New York: Grove Press, 1980), 89.

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medium: fiction

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