Quotes About Experience

That's actually happened?' Ruth asked. 'Everything's happened,' the prostitute said.

With women, Ernie Holm had some experience at taking no for an answer.

It's not the tattoos, my dear boy," Jack's father said, standing naked before him—the shocking white of William's hands and face and neck and penis being the only parts of him that weren't an almost uniform blue-black, some of which had faded to gray. "It's everything I truly heard and felt—it's everything I ever loved! It's not the tattoos that marked me.

It sounds the same to me, Kid," Molly said. "The new lift takes you to the same old place. It's the same trip, just a faster ride—it's no more or less depressing than it ever was," she added.

There is often a defining experience that marks any significant change in the course of a person's life.

Reading good novels can make young readers seem more experienced about relationships than they are.

It had been a startling day for young Copperfield: most of the morning confined in an enema-bag carton; his first attempt at flight; his long fall through the weeds; and then sitting on that dead man's face.

I was four, and I sincerely believe that this is my first memory of life itself – as opposed to what I was told happened, as opposed to the pictures other people have painted for me.

What we believe as children forms us; what haunts us in our childhood and adolescence can make us do wayward things

If your first day of school, like your first tattoo, is a pilgrim experience—well, here was Jack's.

Imagining something is better than remembering something

The past was where he lived most confidently, and with the surest sense of knowing who he was—not only as a novelist.

a school-vacation skier is never the equal to a north-country native.

His exposure to storytelling, through Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte, had ill prepared him for characters who came from and traveled nowhere -- or for stories that made no sense.

I really like the sex in your novels," Dorothy told him. "I like how you do it." "I like it better," Miriam said to him, giving her daughter an all-knowing look. "I have the perspective to know what really bad sex is," Dorothy's mom told her. "Please, Mother—don't paint us a picture," Dorothy said.

In a living city, I could never have noticed so much. Living cities don't hold still.

Imaginer les choses vaut mieux que se les rappeler », avait écrit Garp.

Das Leben ist leider nicht so gebaut wie ein guter, altmodischer Roman. Vielmehr endet es, wenn sich diejenigen, die sich erschöpfen sollen, erschöpft haben. Alles, was bleibt, ist die Erinnerung.

Everyone has a history, Jack.

Starships are fun to fly around in, but they're no place to entertain.

Listen, Jaye. When a man of advancing years tells you something is true, either believe him, or nod politely. The last thing you want to do is shake his faith in his omniscience. – Varner Hilts

His younger brother looked to him for advice—wisdom—never realizing that older people were almost as uncertain of everything as Billy was, if not more.

Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn at no other.

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!