“No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.”
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Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.
I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.