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Success soon palls. The joyous time is, when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
Martin Amis The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986)
In America, success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement that matters.
Success but sharpens his avidity, and facility but augments his impatience.
But success in a military operation always feels short-lived. You shoulder your rifle and move on from there to the next battle.
Lynn Compton Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008)
I've come to see that competitors are necessary to those who want to get on in the world. Opposition is indispensable to success.
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
No one ever squared the circle with so much genius, or, excepting his principal object, with so much success.
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