"Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got……" — Penelope Fitzgerald
"Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences."
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17 Quotes by Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald has 17 quotes on this site.
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I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other…
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More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the…
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The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of…
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A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is…
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I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated,…
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It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the…
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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out…
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If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
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On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings…
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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond…
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Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.
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Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
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More Experiences Quotes
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties…
— Sai Baba
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What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences,…
— Jensen Ackles
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
— Edward Bach
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I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity.…
— Amy Adams
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I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
— Christian Bale
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My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But…
— Drew Barrymore
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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes…
— Gregory Bateson
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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by…
— Martha Beck
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called…
— Alfred Adler
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You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
— Stella Adler
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