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“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
? George Bernard Shaw
“True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.”
? Seth Brown
“Let us cry for the spilt milk, by all means, if by doing so we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us cry for the spilt milk, and remember how, and where, and why, we spilt it. Much wisdom is learnt through tears, but none by forgetting our lessons.”
? María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, The Squatter and the Don
“The Mistake
With the mistake your life goes in reverse.
Now you can see exactly what you did
Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before
And each mistake leads back to something worse
And every nuance of your hypocrisy
Towards yourself, and every excuse
Stands solidly on the perspective lines
And there is perfect visibility.
What an enlightenment. The colonnade
Rolls past on either side. You needn't move.
The statues of your errors brush your sleeve.
You watch the tale turn back — and you're dismayed.
And this dismay at this, this big mistake
Is made worse by the sight of all those who
Knew all along where these mistakes would lead —
Those frozen friends who watched the crisis break.
Why didn't they say? Oh, but they did indeed —
Said with a murmur when the time was wrong
Or by a mild refusal to assent
Or told you plainly but you would not heed.
Yes, you can hear them now. It hurts. It's worse
Than any sneer from any enemy.
Take this dismay. Lay claim to this mistake.
Look straight along the lines of this reverse.”
? James Fenton, Out of Danger
and the most accurate one I think
“Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.”
? Jean-Paul Sartre
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Ahhhhhh. Jean Paul Satre......a very depressing fellah........I read him when I was 17 and didn't realise what depression was until then.....he made me think too deeply and look at life in such a warped way that if I had a noose I probably would have hung myself....in fact, I. Do believe a few people did try to do away with themselves.....brilliant writer though!
.Now where was I?.....oh yes! I remember!....~~~~~~~~ to Rose :-D
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~~~~~~~ waves back to Susan :-)
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