Quotes About Experience

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

You don't spell it, son. You eat it.

At that age, it feels as good to feel bad as it does to feel good.

the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

Life, Garp wrote, is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.

And never forget, there is memory.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves—to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!

DREAMS EDIT THEMSELVES; DREAMS are ruthless with details. Common sense does not dictate what remains, or is not included, in a dream. A two-minute dream can feel like forever.

De alguna manera -había argumentado Garp- la vida es demasiado. La vida es un folletín melodramático no apto para menores, John

Whoever acquired any real or substantive intelligence from reading newspapers? I'm sure I have no in-depth comprehension of American villany; yet I can't leave the news alone! You'd think I might profit from my experience with ice cream. If I have ice cream in my freezer, I'll eat it--I'll eat all of it, all at once. Therefore, I've learned not to buy ice cream. Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate headlines, are pure fat.

God, I think I just hit a high E-flat - and I really held it! Esmeralda said, after one of her more prolonged orgasms, but my ears were warm and sweaty, and my head had been held so tightly between her thighs that I hadn't heard anything.

If you live long enough, Bill - it's a world of epilogues, Richard Abbott said.

in the hospital, Jenny Fields felt she was making up for lost time; she was discovering that people weren't much more mysterious, or much more attractive, than clams.

It often happens with grown-ups that their tears are misunderstood. (Who can know which time in their lives they are reliving?)

Readers vary, when it comes to having the imagination to enjoy a story outside their own experiences.

Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world!

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't.

but you live your life at the time you live it—you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

They were members of Maine's very small money class. Their business, as they ridiculously called it, didn't make a cent, but they didn't need to make money; they were born rich. Their needless enterprise consisted of taking people to the wilderness and creating for them the sensation that they were lost there; they also took people shooting down rapids in frail rafts or canoes, creating for them the sensation that they would surely be bashed to death before they drowned.