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The past is not another country; it is another life. The texture of daily living is different now than in the past, more different the further back we look, until we find people whose experiences created a psychology we might find baffling or rude. Many details that once made up the daily round are lost to us because people considered them too trivial to write down. Knowing the past means knowing what people carried in their pockets, what they did with their sewage, where their dogs slept. Those details may seem unimportant, but what they convey is not. ↗

— Scott Herring

#literature #experience

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#friendship #gender-differences #friendship

When you try to force your dream to “happen faster” you will only create fear and thus, resistance. As you try to force it you are actually sending energy into the universe that “you are not in reach of your dream and it’s not coming fast enough”. This will then create frustrations and anxiety. The universe will respond to your emotional state and give you like energy (more experiences to create fear and anxiety). ↗

— Christopher Dines

#dreams

If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception. ↗

— Richard Serra

#sculpture #serra #temporal #education

My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American. ↗

— Henry Miller

#experience

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#friendship

Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. It was one of the girliest things Simon had ever seen, and he didn’t blame Alec for ducking out from under it and taking his chances with the rain. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#friendship #lgtbq #simon #friendship