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One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Mean
Thing
Much
Really
Repeatedly
Failed
Failing
Stills
Still

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