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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs divorce fornication bullying travel meditation medication depression neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs divorce fornication bullying travel meditation medication depression neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Approximate author period: c. 1961 AD · modern

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Joseph Heller
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Approximate author period: c. 1961 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1923 to 1999; Wikidata Q208101, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q208101 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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