Quotes About Experience

What I'm suggesting then is that much of our response to novels may have to do with the kind of "system" or "conversation" we grew up in and within which we had to find a position and establish an identity.

the story, and the conviction it carries, are part of the teller's way of organizing his own life.

The purpose of reading is not to pass some final judgement on the text, but to engage with what it has to offer to me now.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

There's no use arguing with someone's subjective experience,

Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

We learn to function successfully by experiencing success. Memories of past success act as built-in 'stored information' which gives us self-confidence for the present task.

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

The weekend passed in two slots—bad dreams and awake. Awake was a bad dream come true, so I preferred the other kind.

I knew all these things were true. Wild Bill may have called me into coming to the place where I would experience this adventure, but Bill had crashed out, and I had pulled myself through and had come away with a sense of myself I didn't have before.

That's all any writing could ever be. Words on paper that burn intensely when read and then diminish over time.

I'm going to grab hold of this night and crack it open, eat the fruit right out of the middle, and throw away the rind.

When you're with a girl, it's always best to act like you're an old hand at everything—not to impress her, but just to make sure she feels safe.

who cares about all the problems and barriers, nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

You think beauty's in some classroom or some textbook, and it's not. That's not what it's about. This right here. This is beautiful. All of this. That's all you need.

See, I agree with what Cassidy says - once you have sex you'll always be sewn together with an astral thread.

It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world.

What's pretty important, and least was for me, (related an exceptionally good pinch-hitter on the pressures involved with failing with so much at stake) you can't be afraid to enjoy the moment.

Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy

In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.