Quotes About Experience

We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.

Il avait le poisson sous les yeux et il lui suffisait de regarder ses mains et de sentir son dos contre le bois de l'arrière pour savoir que cela était bel et bien arrivé et que ce n'était pas un rêve.

When I was a little girl I didn't like the smell of the hops in the carts. Nor in the fields. Je n'aime pas les houblons. No, my God, not a bit. The man that owns the brewery said to me and my sister to go to the brewery and drink the beer, and then we'd like the hops. That's true. Then we liked them all right. He had them give us the beer. We liked them all right then.

I am not sure Scott had ever drunk wine from a bottle before and it was exciting to him as though he were slumming or as a girl might be excited by going swimming for the first time without a bathing suit.

I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as on 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.

If you can do this you are beginning to get what you are trying for, which is to make something that will become a part of the reader's experience and a part of his memory.

Juntó las manos y sintió las palmas. No estaban muertas y le bastaba con abrirlas y cerrarlas para notar el dolor de la vida.

I write about my now. It is the horses. You have a very interesting now. And you've made me presents of many places and people.

He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know

Cruise around by yourself and see what happens to you.

To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare…That's rare and valuable.

You will not be nineteen always

He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some new ones. You kept from thinking and it was all marvellous. You were equipped with good insides so that you did not go to pieces that way, the way most of them had, and you made an attitude that you cared nothing for the work you used to do, now that you could no longer do it.

As he had originally planned to do, Hemingway took the external details of the story and presented them from the point of view of the fisherman. He thus made it possible for the reader to participate imaginatively in the story. That effect was always Hemingway's primary aim as a writer.

Es un oficio bastante malo,' he repeated, 'loving me.' 'Yes. But it is the only one I have.' 'Don't you write any more poetry?' 'It was young girl poetry. Like young girl painting. Everyone is talented at a certain age.' At what age do you become old in this country, the Colonel thought. No one is ever old in Venice, but they grow up very fast. I grew up very rapidly in the Veneto myself and I was never as old as I was at twenty-one.

And what happened?' 'Much,' the woman said. 'Much. And all of it ugly. Even that which was glorious.

Sre?a je nešto što dolazi u raznim oblicima i tko je uop?e može prepoznati? Ja bih je ipak uzeo u svakom obliku i platio koliko traže.

because I've lived through so much,I can now enjoy in everything

Fizettél nekem egy pohár sört – mondta az öreg. – Embernyi ember vagy már.

He thought of all the time in his life he had spent gambling.

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful.

they're too big. If that doesn't offer a pleasure, then why do fishing?

Live life to the fullest

The only place where you could see life and death, i.e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it.