"You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape."

Experience, Day, Light, Sun

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"You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape."

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"When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit.And nearly choked to death.It was like fire in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me."Wh...what is this?" I asked, coughing.Viktoria grinned. "Vodka."I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before.""Not Russian vodka."Apparently not."

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"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

Richard Thompson, British Musician

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Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

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"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

John Updike, American Novelist

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"At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war."

Allen Dulles, American Public Servant

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"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you."

Donald L. Hicks, American Author

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"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."

Charles Simic, American Poet

Experience, Poetry, Silence, Words

"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"The history of liberty is a history of resistance."

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"That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic."

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"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."

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"I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind."

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"Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt."

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