#experience

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. ↗

— George Sand

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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. ↗

— George Santayana

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Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Sound comes out of a life experience. ↗

— Bill Laswell

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. ↗

— Vernon Law

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But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies. ↗

— Erika Slezak

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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. ↗

— Norman Lear

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Experience is a great teacher. ↗

— John Legend

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A story is how we construct our experiences. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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