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"Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives."
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"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."
"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."
"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."
"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas."
"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
"And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are."
"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."
"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."
"Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force."
"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."
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"Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world."
"It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be."
"Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives."
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