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My greatest good fortunę was that I didn't know that I was doing everything wrong; if I’d done a sin gle thing right, 1 probably would have failed. If l'd known how hard—statislically speaking— it is lo get a first novel pubłishcd, 1 might have givon up and done what my wifc told me to do—sold some morę imurance. What suc cess really mcans, I think, is look-ing failure in the face and tossing the dice anywa>'. You may be the only person who ever knows how the dice come up, but in that knowledge you have something that mUlions of people will never have—Ibecause they were afraid to try ■