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"I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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Personal Development
"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."
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"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."
Universe
"I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."
Experience
"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through."
Earth
"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."
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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
Personal
"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."
Humor
"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."
Chance
"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after."
Car
"Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart."
Heart
"There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you."
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