"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."

Experience, Eye, Man

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"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."

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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."

Karl Shapiro, American Poet

Experience, Poetry

"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."

Eva Longoria, American Actress

Experience, Time, Sexuality

"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Experience, Mistake, Humor, Life, Embarrassment

"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"

Karl Liebknecht, German Politician

Experience, Forget

"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Experience, Failure, Success, Foundation

"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

Experience, Moment, Life, Memory, Identity

"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds."

Rene Daumal, French Writer

Experience, Gold, Value, Words

"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Experience, Reality, Perception, Life

"I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Experience, Travel, Engagement, Responsibility, Observation

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

Henry Miller, American Author

Experience, Growth, Act

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"By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one."

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"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."

Reading

"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself."

Humor

"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."

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"My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat."

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"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."

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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."

"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."

"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"

"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."

"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds."

"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

"I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements."

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

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"By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one."

"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."

"Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality."

"The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest."

"Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly."

"As between mileage and experience choose experience."

"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself."

"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."

"My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat."

"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."