"Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience."

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"Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience."

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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Experience is by industry achiev'd,And perfected by the swift course of time."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other realm she had never attained before. She had touched through his act some climate of violence she had never known before."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

Stephen King, American Author

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