Quotes About Experience

I can tell the whole thing in one breath. I trouped, traveled, loved, lost, trusted and was betrayed.

Creo que las cosas siempre van mal de un modo u otro -declaró-. Quizá sea que solo nosotros, los mayores, nos damos cuenta.

Esa era otra lección que había aprendido, quizá demasiado bien: la gente hacía daño.

Teccam said the same thing: no man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened,

Do you know many stories?" He smiled, and the network of lines that crossed his face turned to make themselves part of that smile. "I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

We shared an apple, passing it back and forth between bites, which is close to kissing, if you've never kissed before.

A long road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of introspection.

Cuando pido Greysdale en Anker's, saben perfectamente lo que quiero decir —expliqué—. Si pidiera algo que no existiera, alguien podría descubrir el juego. —Y tú ¿cómo lo sabes? —le pregunto Sim a Manet. —Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo —contestó.

Anyone who thinks boys are innocent and sweet has never been a boy himself, or has forgotten it. And anyone who thinks men aren't hurtful and cruel at times must not leave his house often.

Nothing makes a man feel older than a young woman.

It is not a place you travel to, it is the place you pass through while on your way to somewhere else.

All the truth is held in stories, you know?

If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more abour yourself than a hundred years of quite introspection.

Quizá un objeto adquiera belleza con el uso. -Quizá un objeto se use según su belleza.

trouped, traveled, loved, lost, trusted and was betrayed.

Con la edad se deterioran muchas cosas. Las manos y la espalda cobran rigidez. La visión empeora. La piel se vuelve áspera y la belleza se apaga.

Creedme: Esos hombres no saben nada del amor.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way.

Most things fail with age. Our hands and backs stiffen. Our eyes dim. Skin roughens and our beauty fades. The only exception is the voice. Properly cared for, a voice does nothing but grow sweeter with age and constant use.

It is easier to understand if you think of it in terms of music. Sometimes a man enjoys a symphony. Elsetimes he finds a jig more suited to his taste. The same holds true for lovemaking. One type is suited to the deep cushions of a twilight forest glade. Another comes quite naturally tangled in the sheets of narrow beds upstairs in inns. Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way." Chronicler

He barely even owned his own name, and even that had been worn thin and threadbare through the years.