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"As between mileage and experience choose experience."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."
"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."
"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"
"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."
"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds."
"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
"I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements."
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
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"By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one."
"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."
"For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."
"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."
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