Actual Failure Rate

Famous quotes containing the words actual, failure and/or rate:

“The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has.... Actual participation requires a total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.”
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“No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.”
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“If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.”
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