Quotes About Experience

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

When I re-read, I know what I'm getting. It's like revisiting an old friend. An unread book holds wonderful unknown promise, but also threatens disappointment. A re-read is a known quantity.

My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won't know anything whatsoever about it, it will be wonderful, it will be exciting and layered and complex and I will be excited by it, and I will re-read it every year or so for the rest of my life, discovering more about it every time, and every time remembering the circumstances in which I first read it.

Yet I felt he was innocent in a way I was not, that I knew more about evil than he ever could, because he had parents who loved him and wanted the best for him, while I had grown up with Mummy.

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.

would savor this mortal life while I had it, learn and experience all I could. And when it ended, I would take what I had learned and be a more excellent god and make the world better.

The next day we left for Rome. I had decided to make my books last and read only one book a week, but instead I gorged myself on them.

People tell you to write what you know, but I've found that writing what you know is much harder than making it up.

There's a line in Delany's Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand where he talks about re-reading and says that this time the gleam of torchlight reflected in the water was a different gold. That about sums it up. I love the first re-read of a book, when I know what is coming and am not anxious either about what will happen or whether it will continue to be good, but it isn't yet as familiar as an old slipper.

Plato didn't have as much experience of humanity as he needed when he wrote a book like the Republic,' Socrates said. 'Perhaps nobody does.

eight books sounds (and feels!) like a lot, but it isn't as if they'll last me all week.

People tell you to write what you know, but I've found that writing what you know is much harder than making it up. It's easier to research a historical period than your own life, and it's much easier to deal with things that have a little less emotional weight and where you have a little more detachment. It's terrible advice!

Moço! Toda saudade é uma espécie de velhice.

Sei que estou falando demais, dos lados. Resvalo. Assim é que a velhice faz.

Toda saudade é uma espécie de velhice

Vecchio è, quel che di già è fuorviato. Il vecchio ha avuto valore quando era nuovo...

Montagne che uno va salendo, per scoprire altre montagne. Ci sono cose di tutti i generi. Vivendo, s'impara; ma quel che s'impara, di più, è solo a fare altre e maggiori domande.

No real da vida, as coisas acabam com menos formato, nem acabam. Melhor assim. Pelejar por exato, dá erro contra a gente. Não se queira. Viver é muito perigoso...

Esbandalhados nós estávamos, escatimados naquela esfrega. Esmorecidos é que não. Nenhum se lastimava, filhos do dia, acho mesmo que ninguém se dizia de dar por assim. Jagunço é isso. Jagunço não se escabrêia com perda nem derrota — quase que tudo para ele é o igual. Nunca vi. Pra ele a vida já está assentada: comer, beber, apreciar mulher, brigar, e o fim final.

A vida não parava nunca, para a gente poder viver direito, concertado?

Sem o momento, não existiriam nem a antecipação nem a lembrança, mas como os dois são melhores que o momento!

Então eu acho que se deve experimentar, é uma burrice não experimentar. Quem não usa nada, nem secretamente, é um perigoso louco que possivelmente mataria alguém.

Those are the things that cannot be learned by means of words and consequently cannot be taught by means of words.

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a glorious voyage.