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"Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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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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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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"Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution."
Experience
"The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference."
Difference
"Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us."
Today
"Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband."
First
"Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
Work
"Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary."
People
"There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital."
Truth
"My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it."
Work
"The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke."
Public
"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."
Life
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