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Beckett, Samuel. "Worstward Ho!" Nohow On. The Limited Editions Club, 1989.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

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"Failure." Directed by Mark Romanek. Performed by Michael Jordan. Nike, May 1997.

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

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Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 18.

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Landor, Walter Savage. "Chesterfield and Chatham." Imaginary Conversations. c. 1825.

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"The Hot Tub." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Gregg Kavet, directed by Andy Ackerman, season 7, episode 5, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1995.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Strenuous Life." Hamilton Club of Chicago meeting. 10 Apr. 1899, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Strenuous Life." Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Vintage, 2014.

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Keats, John. Endymion. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1818, preface.

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Keats, John. "Endymion." John Keats: Selected Poems, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2007, preface.

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Greene, Graham. Ways of Escape. The Bodley Head, 1980, ch. 8, sec. 3.

Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure.

Charlie Kaufman

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Kaufman, Charlie. "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman." Screenwriters' Lecture Series. 30 Sept. 2011, British Film Institute, London, England, UK.

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Heller, Joseph. Conversations with Joseph Heller, edited by Adam J. Sorkin. University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Originally spoken during an interview by Sam Merrill. Playboy, June 1975.

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White, Patrick. Voss. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957, ch. 10.

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

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"Bart vs. Thanksgiving." The Simpsons, written by Matt Groening and James L. Brooks and Sam Simon, directed by David Silverman, season 2, episode 7, Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television, 1990.

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"Comparative Religion." Community, written by Dan Harmon and Liz Cackowski, directed by Adam Davidson, season 1, episode 12, Krasnoff Foster Productions and Harmonius Claptrap, 2009.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." 1870, University College London, London, England, UK.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." Collected Essays. Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Pasternak, Boris. До́ктор Жива́го [Dr. Zhivago]. Feltrinelli, pt. 2, ch. 13, sect. 12.

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Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Vintage International, 2011, pt. 2, ch. 13, sect. 12.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

Nick Cave

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Cave, Nick. Quoted in Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave, written by Ian Johnstone. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.