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Experience Quotes
"Naturally all of them had a sad story: too much notice, not enough, or the worst kind. Some tale about dragon daddies and false-hearted men, or mean mamas and friends who did them wrong. Each story has a monster in it who made them tough instead of brave, so they open their legs rather than their hearts where that folded child is tucked."
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"So what do you think the physical effect was?"Roman Laughed. "Buddy," he said, "she was tripping."
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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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"People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records."
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"If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it."
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"Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience."
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"The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure."
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"But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them."
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"It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience."
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"Life is an experimental field. You can explore by faith."
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"Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes."
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"Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels..."
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"Killing is no ordinary act,' said the vampire. 'One doesn't simply glut oneself on blood.' He shook his head. 'It is the experience of another's life for certain, and often the experience of the loss of that life through the blood, slowly. It is again and again the experience when I sucked the blood from Lestat's wrist and felt his heart pound with my heart. It is again and again a celebration of that experience; because for vampires that is the ultimate experience."
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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
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"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."
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"An earthquake is such fun when it is over."
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"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."
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"Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present."
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"Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters."
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"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."
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"Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way."
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"What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do somethingyou've never done before? There's only one way to find out."
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"Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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"At one time in my life, a shapeshifted, demonically possessed maniac crashing through a window and trying to rip my face off would have come as an enormous and nasty surprise.But that time was pretty much in the past."
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"It's true what they say, you know. First fuck. First love. First kill. You never forget your first."
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"Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dram now and then; for she had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly...Her triumph was tempered by circumspection, she had still that field-mouse fear of the coulter of destiny despite fair promise, which is common among the thoughtful who have suffered early from poverty and oppression."
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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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"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."
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"I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room."
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"But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting."
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"And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs."
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"With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others."
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"In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is."
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"I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid."
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"I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness."
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"...and where the Ferris wheel carried its passengers high and brought them low and raised them high and brought them low again, as if it were not merely a carnival ride but also a metaphor for the basic pattern of human experience."
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"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage."
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"Knowing it does not compare with loving it, loving it does not compare with delighting in it."
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"Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old."
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"Trust the one with experience, not the one with ideas."
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"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."
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"The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint."
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"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."
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