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"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"
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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."
"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."
"I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that."
"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
"So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience."
"The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint."
"I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time."
"I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first."
"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it."
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"There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins."
"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living."
"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated."
"It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."
"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away."
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