"Most fiction comes from your experience." — Susan Minot
"Most fiction comes from your experience."
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Susan Minot
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29 Quotes by Susan Minot
Susan Minot has 29 quotes on this site.
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When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock…
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The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person,…
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After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather…
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[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates.…
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Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved…
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I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.
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There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
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After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even…
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...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.
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...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while…
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Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which…
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Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain…
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More Experience Quotes
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one of 11,464 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
— Hannah Arendt
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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