#erie

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#experience #life #experience

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#process #experience

When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears. ↗

— S.N. Goenka

#truth #experience

If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#writing #experience

Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#experience

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#anarchist #politics #experience