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Experience Quotes by John Green
- ...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the…
- [My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest…
- Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does…
- In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of…
- I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I…
- I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.
- Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each…
- Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism…
- I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would agree that curiosity…
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
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- 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
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- 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 value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama