Quotes About Experience

Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.

Perhaps sex was something you had to learn and then stick at until you were good at it, like hockey or the piano. But an initial lesson would be helpful.

Parenting is like writing, most people just make it up as they go along.

no book could ever be left in the condition you found it in because it was changed every time it was read by someone.

Louise remembered that odd fluttery feeling of having a freewheeling baby inside you, independent and dependent at the same time, an eternal maternal dialectic.

It just went to show, you never knew what you were going to feel until you felt it.

It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was. You were either moved by it or you weren't.

The past is what you take with you.

Well, we all get on,' Sylvie said, 'one way or another. And in the end we all arrive at the same place. I hardly see that it matters how we get there.' It

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

When I was young, I loved black men.

Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

Men are but children of a larger growth.

I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.