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"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."
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"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."
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."
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"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."
"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."
"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."
"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."
"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
"For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find."
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