Quotes About Experience

As soon as one has lived through something, it falls into a pattern. And the pattern of an affair, even one that has lasted five years and has been as close as a marriage, is seen in terms of what ends it. That is why all this is untrue. Because while living through something one doesn't think like that at all.

NÆ°á»›c m?t ch?y trong gi?c ng? là gi?t nÆ°á»›c m?t th?t nh?t ch?y trong cuá»™c ??i c?a chúng ta. Nh?ng gi?t nÆ°á»›c m?t lúc th?c ch? là tá»± thÆ°Æ¡ng h?i mà thôi.

Él nos dijo: con los años llegaréis a amar el mundo. Y nos sentamos allí con las almas en el regazo y las consolamos.

Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I was, and I learned something from everyone I read -- something most important what I should not try to write.

For that is of course what it means to read a novel and live in it for a while. You are viscerally inside someone else's reality. You feel and understand things you have not known before, and that is both scary and exhilarating. The world becomes more clear, reality more vivid, and your own experience larger.

People want biography. People want memoir. They want you to tell them that the story you're telling them is true. The thing I'm telling you is true, but it did not always happen to me.

I might not have ever had the courage to write those stories without that experience, that training ground in how to look at one's own life and see it as a story.

What I have tried to do in my own life is refuse the language and categories that would reduce me to less than my whole complicated experience

The reality is that for many of us family was as much the incubator of despair as the safe nurturing

I shook my head once and caught her glance, the wise and sullen look of a not quite adolescent girl who knew too much.

Whatever magic Jesus' grace promised, I didn't feel it.

She was an actress in the theater of true life

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

Age can mellow, they say.' 'They say wrong,' said Diccon Chancellor. 'I have known Mistress Philippa these two months, and I have aged while she has grown daily less mellow. Why else am I fleeing the country?

But you do not know me,' Lymond said. 'Whereas I know you exceedingly well. You should be glad. I may well find it tedious; but you should have an extremely interesting journey.

I think you might come to forget, too, that life is more than a science.

And for Adam Blacklock the artist, older, wiser, and perhaps less vulnerable than once he had been, a chance to assess from maturity a person whose maturity was and always had been a thing disconcerting to witness. For what, after these violent years, would entertain or even interest Francis Crawford, Blacklock found he had no idea.

I had no expectations,' Philippa said. The tears stood still on her face. 'This is one lesson I know by heart already.

Before you die, there must be nothing you have not experienced. When you die—and I shall be there—it will be an experience which no man has savoured. Guard your health, Mr Crawford. I should not like you to leave us too soon.

But I am no godly man. I'm only a commander of some experience, who knows how to ask a tired army to throw its heart into a citadel and follow it. Forgive me.

A mind responsive to beauty is a storehouse with many rooms; words, sounds, textures, all the nobler exercises of the senses leave some image filed and folded to be summoned at need. There, too, the brutal images are kept: the sights and smells and hurts, real and imagined, which the responsive mind accepts and has bedded deep.

Lymond said, 'Have I been talking?' 'We all have, in nightmares. But yours have not been about the sea.

Nicholas formed the opinion that my lord Simon was untouched by time and probably by experience.