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"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of 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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"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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"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
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"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
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"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
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"Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"
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"I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive."
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"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity."
War
"When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt."
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"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
Experience
"The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead."
War
"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."
World
"I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it."
Interference
"People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others."
People
"Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do."
Balance
"I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them."
Money
"I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."
Age
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