... we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don't apply—as when Mallory said, about Everest: Success is meaningless here.


'Very Graceful Are the Uses of Culture', p. 206 - Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)

Randall Jarrell Quotes

We like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to...

We like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to...

We like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to...

We like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to...