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"The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter."
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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."
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
"We just had a near-life experience!"
"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."
"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."
"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
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"Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?"
"The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter."
"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."
"We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity."
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."
"So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance."
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