#erie

Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it comes to how we experienced them at the time, memory feels no obligation to truth. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#memory #experience

In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#miles #vorkosigan #experience

If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.”Fire, Kristin Cashore “If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting. ↗

— Kristen Cashore

#kristin-cashore #seven-kingdoms #experience

There was polite laughter in the courtroom. Bosch noticed that the attorneys -- prosecution and defense -- dutifully joined in, a couple of them overdoing it. It had been his experience that while in open court a judge could not possibly tell a joke that the lawyers did not laugh at. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#opportunism #pandering #power #experience

The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#experience

...they make us dependent on a social system that exploits our energies for its own purposes. ...If a person learns to enjoy and find meaning in the ongoing stream of experience, in the process of living itself, the burden of social controls automatically falls from one's shoulders. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#p- #experience

The one thing that you can be sure about of what mankind has learned over the centuries...is that he has paid attention to none of it. ↗

— Tonny K. Brown

#experience

It's a story you can break down and analyze and find analogies and lessons in it, and then it becomes a story about life. But you can also experience it whole, and then it's not a story about life. Then it is life. ↗

— Noam Shpancer

#story #experience

It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#experience

The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never carry on right through the point where whatever it is that threatens your life actually takes it -- and get anybody to believe you. The world is full of sceptics. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#storytelling #experience