“Some people feel the rain; others just get wet.” — Roger Miller, “Roger Miller with His Friends and His Music,” ABC (1973-01-01)
Tag: experience
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“The only reason for writing history, I think,is so we can try to understand the present. Because of that, the questions it seems relevant to us to ask about the past are informed by our experience of the present. You’re asking the past different questions from what people did fifty years ago, or will be doing in another fifty years.” — Pat Barker, The Art of Fiction No. 243, The Paris Review (Winter 2018)
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“Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.” — Josh Billings, “Lobstir Sallad,” The Complete Works of Josh Billings
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“The only way to learn from experience is to have different experiences.” — Seth Godin, Experience and variation
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“When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I’m five I know everything.” — Emma Donoghue, Room
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“It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.” — Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
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“Few of us keep accurate records of what we’ve learned as we hobble through life barking our shins in the dark on experiences we’ve already had.” — Harlan Ellison, “The Deadly ‘Nackles’ Affair,” Slippage
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“As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.” — Anthony Bourdain, The Nasty Bits
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“Experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.” — Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
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“Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.” — Joseph Campbell, Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth
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