“That [Samuel] Beckett phrase of ‘fail, fail again,
fail better’[from
Worstward Ho] is maybe one to bear in mind. But who
pretends that life is one slowly ascending curve of human development? Most of
the time you have to smash into something: the death, the broken relationship,
the horrible career moment. Then you think, Well, what matters to me? What do I
enjoy? Or even just, I’m still here.”—Actor-director Sir Kenneth Branagh quoted
in David Marchese, “Talk: Kenneth Branagh Is Finally Processing His Childhood Trauma,” The New York Times Magazine, Nov. 7, 2021
(The accompanying photo of Kenneth Branagh was taken
on July 10, 2009, at the Roma Fiction Fest that year, by Giorgia Meschini.)
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