Quotes About Experience

I walked down past the Lycée Henri Quatre and the ancient church of St.-Étienne-du-Mont and the windswept Place du Panthéon and cut in for shelter to the right and finally came out on the lee side of the Boulevard St.-Michel and worked on down it past the Cluny and the Boulevard St.-Germain until I came to a good café that I knew on the Place St.-Michel.

Maybe away from Paris I could write about Paris as in Paris I could write about Michigan. I did not know it was too early for that because I did not know Paris well enough. But that was how it worked out eventually

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master

Holdat-napot, mely odafenn világol. Akármennyit járhatom a világot, Soha el nem fogyasztom e világot.

Books should be about the people you know, that you love and hate, not about the people you study up about.

I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as in seventy years; granted that your life has been full up to the time that the seventy hours start and that you have reached a certain age.

Everything about the old man was old with the sole exception of his eyes. His eyes resembled the colour of the sea and were joyous and unconquered.

You learn in this war if you listen.

I pointed to the canvas where the rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.

But they went through this fiction every day.

He was beautiful, the old man remembered, and he had stayed.

De az okos embernek néha be kell rúgnia, hogy kibírja a bolondok között.

You never look old. -The body is that which grows old. The spirit is neither older, nor much wiser.

He can't have gone," he said. "Christ knows he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and he remembers something of it.

The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

Together they made the bed with me in it. That was new to me and an admirable proceeding.

That's all we do, isn't it—look at things and try new drinks?

You saw fear and apprehension. The fear was made by what he had been through. The apprehension was for the possibility of evil he imagined.

The things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta. Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

went to church a couple of times, once with Brett. She said she wanted to hear me go to confession, but I told her that not only was it impossible but it was not as interesting as it sounded, and, besides, it would be in a language she did not know.

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.

That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

it's a big misconception: the wisdom of the old people. They don't become wiser. Just more cautious.