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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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"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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"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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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
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"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."
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"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
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"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."
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"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."
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"Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart."
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"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."
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"The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes."
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"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."
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"I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any."
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"Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."
Marriage

"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."
Universe

"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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"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after."
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"I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."
Experience
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