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"I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience."
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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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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around."
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"We just had a near-life 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."
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"It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests."
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"I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints."
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"You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world."
Experience
"The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage."
Music
"Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage."
Audience
"I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless."
Endurance
"Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years."
Power
"I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet."
Expertise
"At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life."
Life
"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."
Nation
"The Senate is an unknowing world."
Unknowing
"I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it."
Life
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