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There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has been cheated a little, at least in one's own life, and a personal, trivial immortality of an old self assured. And there is another personal satisfaction: that of the people who like to recount their adventures, the diary-keepers, the story-tellers, the letter-writers, a strange race of people who feel half cheated of an experience unless it is retold. It does not really exist until it is put into words. As though a little doubting or dull, they could not see it until it is repeated. For, paradoxically enough, the more unreal an experience becomes - translated from real action into unreal words, dead symbols for life itself - the more vivid it grows. Not only does it seem more vivid, but its essential core becomes clearer. One says excitedly to an audience, 'Do you see - I can't tell you how strange it was - we all of us felt...' although actually, at the time of incident, one was not conscious of such a feeling, and only became so in the retelling. It is as inexplicable as looking all afternoon at a gray stone of a beach, and not realizing, until one tries to put it on canvas, that is in reality bright blue.


Anne Morrow Lindbergh


#feeling #journals #meaning #stories #time

We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.


Willie Aames


#before #both #commitment #experiences #fearful

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.


Gregory Bateson


#becomes #below #deprived #experiences #fall

Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists.


Kathleen Battle


#because #both #christopher #experiences #gifted

We are all products of our environment; every person we meet, every new experience or adventure, every book we read, touches and changes us, making us the unique being we are.


C.J. Heck


#experiences-and-adventures #how-we-become-us #who-we-are #change

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.


Theodore Bikel


#audiences #come #comedy #doing #draw

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.


James Dean


#actor #experiences #fact #feet #his

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.


Chris Evans


#any #been #downs #enough #experience

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.


Mary J. Blige


#either #experiences #go #i #learn

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.


David Eddings


#cadre #experiences #gave #harrowing #here






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