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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

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... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself. ↗

— Nora Ephron

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Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road. ↗

— Steve Albini

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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky. ↗

— Shana Alexander

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Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools. ↗

— William Alexander

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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest. ↗

— Karen Allen

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The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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