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"The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes."
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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."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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Personal Development
"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"We just had a near-life experience!"
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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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"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."
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"Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money."
Money
"I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self."
Mistake
"The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life."
Life
"Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value."
Profit
"In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera."
Quotation
"He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid."
Character
"What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all."
Life
"Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume."
Love
"The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism."
Life
"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less."
Knowledge
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