In the memoirs, and in the introductions to his novels, he emphasizes his own flaws and failures, forgives himself for them, and, by extension, forgives his readers theirs.
Rickles reserves the sharpest barbs for himself: "Failure was still my best friend," he recalls of his efforts in school.
Officials blamed signal failures for most of the accidents.
— Americans overwhelmingly blame mental health failures for mass shootings.
However much Clegg points the finger at a treacherous Tory leadership or the recalcitrant big beasts in his own party, he knows that ultimately there is one person to blame for his failures: himself.
The biggest reason for this is that, unlike Capote, Lerman never published a novel, memoir or true-crime book, a failure for which he reproached himself throughout his life.
Corgan initially blamed fans for the failure, then himself, saying that he "made the mistake of telling people it was a techno record" and that if he "would have told everyone Adore was the Pumpkins' acoustic album we would have never had the problems that we had".
After the man refused to show his ID, he was arrested for failure to identify himself, although he had a legal right not to do so.
Under those principles, an officer may not arrest a suspect for failure to identify himself if the identification request is not reasonably related to the circumstances justifying the stop.
Though conventionally "successful," he dies at 50 believing himself a failure for not following through on his original life plan.
