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"In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"

"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."

"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."

"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."

"Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"

"I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive."
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"But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars."

"How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death."

"None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light."

"There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work."

"I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather...the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it-very loose, the line of the law-so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are always-short of the blantant theft or cold-blooded murder-safely on the right side."
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