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Thread: On failure
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2012-03-16, 09:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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On failure
JK Rowling tells us "rock bottom became the foundation on which I rebuilt my life".
I like her more and more , even if her books can't hold a candle to Duane's "Young Wizards" series :).
Respectfully,
Brian P.
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2012-03-16, 09:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On failure
Well, if you've hit rock bottom, you can't go any lower.
The only problem is overcoming the despair that would afflict you if not careful.
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2012-03-16, 09:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On failure
Rowling is surprisingly cool. And the message was good, too.
"What can change the nature of a man?"
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2012-03-16, 11:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On failure
I'm a strong supporter of learning from one's mistakes and getting stronger enduring difficulties. I have to say, sometimes I wish life could trow me a bone and show me that I'm right for not taking the easy way out of things, but regardless...
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2012-03-16, 07:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On failure
Well you've got two options - you can either wait for life to throw you a bone, or you can make your own by tearing it out of Life's quivering body, with your bare teeth and nails in a frenzied bloodied act of cannibalism.
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I have no idea what I was trying to say with that analogy and it probably means that I should go to bed.
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2012-03-16, 08:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On failure
I dunno, I kinda liked that analogy.
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2012-03-16, 10:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On failure
Mauve Shirt, Savannah, Gnomish Wanderer, Cuthalion and Smuchmuch get cookies for making me avatars. (::)
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2012-03-17, 12:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On failure
From a pseudo-scientific point of view, I have a hard time taking this as any sort of actual encouragement. There's plenty of quotes like this. But there's two directions you can go from rock bottom, and there's a vast underrepresentation from the people who went the other direction >.>
Last edited by Ceric; 2012-03-17 at 12:26 AM.
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2012-03-19, 08:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On failure
Possibly not - there's a book which is a collection of people's suicide notes, which is probably the closest you can get this side of a seance: Link.
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2012-03-19, 08:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-19, 08:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On failure
I've no objection to having multiple people quote me.
Well there's messy and there's having blood and loose skin smeared across your face with raw viscera stuck between your teeth and probably up your nose too (stupidly designed human face for biting).Last edited by Brother Oni; 2012-03-19 at 08:39 PM.
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2012-03-19, 10:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-20, 10:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On failure
I always find it cool when celebrities give messages like that...it can be encouraging when they do it right. The wording is quite cool, too.
Just remember - yelling "Who wrote this ****?!" at the top of your lungs is a normal and accepted part of the editing process.
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2012-03-20, 05:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-20, 10:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On failure
Mauve Shirt, Savannah, Gnomish Wanderer, Cuthalion and Smuchmuch get cookies for making me avatars. (::)
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2012-03-21, 08:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-21, 09:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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