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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail.