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from CLOCKWORK, OR, ALL WOUND UP
If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you’re willing to risk failure.
Philip Pullman
There seems to be a consensus that we have to overcome fears and face failure. How we respond to it is what matters. Just as those who know no fear cannot be brave, as Mark Twain reminds us in the previous extract, so it is true that those who know no failure cannot be strong, as author Philip Pullman says here, in his 1996 novel Clockwork, or, All Wound Up. The survivors are the true successes.
You can find more things to read from Philip Pullman on pages 59 and 81.
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