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"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
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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."

"My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue."
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"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."

"All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved."

"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."

"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."

"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."

"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."
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