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"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around."
"If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it."
"I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad."
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"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"
"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."
"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."
"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."
"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape."
"You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied."
"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."
"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul."
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