Quotes with mishaps

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• A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate

  Christopher Hampton
  British playwright (1946 - )
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• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• disappointments
• fundamentally
• inadequate
• anything
• allied
• belief

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