Quotes About Experience

Thank you very much," the girl said. "You know that another woman, or a woman in memory, is a terrible thing for a young girl to deal with when she is still without experience.

You know the only thing I've ever lost is curiosity, he said to her. You've never lost anything.You're the most complete man I've ever known

For a man to take it at thirty-four as a guide-book to what life holds is about as safe as it would be for a man of the same age to enter Wall Street direct from a French convent, equipped with a complete set of the more practical Alger books.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn...

He could see the fish and he had only to look at his hands and feel his back against the stern to know that this had truly happened and was not a dream.

Todo en él era viejo excepto sus ojos.

You look at the picture without prejudice,read book with open heart,like yours,but the life, you simply live

You know the fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

If you ever live to be as old as I am you will find many things strange." "You never seem old." "It is the body that is old. Sometimes I am afraid I will break off a finger as one breaks a stick of chalk. And the spirit is no older and not much wiser." "You are wise." "No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." "Perhaps that is wisdom." "It is a very unattractive wisdom.

All remembrance of things past is fiction.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.

The cider tasted like Michigan too and I always remembered the cider mill

I may not be as strong as I think,' the old man said, 'But I know many tricks and I have resolution.

I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it—look at things and try new drinks?

Certi altri posti non erano così buoni, ma forse eravamo noi a non essere così buoni quando eravamo là.

Ma che cosa posso raccontare a questa ragazza, ora, in questa fredda mattina ventosa al Gritti Palace Hotel? "Che cosa vorresti sapere, Figlia?" le chiese "Tutto quanto." "Va bene" disse il colonnello. "Incominciamo.

Azt hiszem – gondolta –, hetven órában csakúgy elfér az egész élet, mint hetven évben; de csak ha az ember már kinÅ'tt a gyerekkorból, s ha már s hetven óra kezdetét is gazdag élet elÅ'zte meg.

Az ember végigmegy az életén, s mindenféle helyzetrÅ'l azt hiszi, jelent valamit, s végül kiderül, hogy nem.

I had try to tell the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know.

Gondold el: ha volna Isten, soha nem engedte volna azt a sok mindent, amit én láttam, a két szememmel.

But was it corruption or was it merely that you lost the naïveté that you started with? Would it not be the same in anything? Who else

I didn't know how I could feel any worse. But you can all right. I can promise you that.

Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete.