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"I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal."
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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."

"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human 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."

"Many people experience Gethsemane moments."
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