Common Experience Quotes
27 quotes by 27 authors
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All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary…
— Alain LeRoy Locke
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Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have…
— John Updike
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The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into…
— Arthur Hopcraft
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...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop…
— Robert Adams
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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It is important to learn from other women. We have a lot to offer and to learn from each other out of our separate and…
— Hazel Hawke
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Simple exchanges can break down walls between us, for when people come together and speak to one another and share a common experience, then their…
— Barack Obama
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For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these…
— James W. Sire
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I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a…
— Sid Fleischman
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As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience.…
— Richard Thompson
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This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that inhabit…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all…
— Shane Black
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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
— John Steinbeck
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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
— Tom Stoppard
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In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the…
— Charles Baxter
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too…
— Marilynne Robinson
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The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we find ourselves drawn…
— Neal Shusterman
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Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one…
— Clarence Darrow
Who Wrote These Common Experience Quotes
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