"Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket." — William Golding

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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
• For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
• An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a… — Sholem Asch
• We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
• Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he… — Bashar al-Assad
• The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
• People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about… — Chinua Achebe
• Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United… — Margaret Atwood
• Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find… — Saint Augustine
• To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila

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