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"None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones."
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"Any experience can be transformed into something of value."

"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."

"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

"Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit."

"I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for."

"No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book."

"I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort."

"But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way."

"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."

"I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government."
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"Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them."

"Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one."
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