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Experience Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at my disposal complicated…
- Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been…
- Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is…
- Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill…
- -Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving…
- It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily… — Anthony Bourdain
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. — Paulo Coelho
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson