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"Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey."
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"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."
"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink."
"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."
"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
"Experience everything but cling to what is right."
"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."
"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
"Experience is something you have to go through to tell it details."
"Life is an experimental field. You can explore by faith."
"The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know."
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"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."
"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."
"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."
"We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life."
"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."
"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."
"To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement."
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