H. G. Wells Quotes

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

H. G. Wells

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• Enough
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• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

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• I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

  

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• I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

  

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• If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Life
  • High
  • Failure