Failed States Index

Famous quotes containing the words failed, states and/or index:

“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)

“I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.”
—Barbara Mikulski (b. 1936)

“Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)