#peri

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#finally #happens #long #long run #overtakes

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#experience #going #know #learning #lecture

I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#experience

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class. ↗

— Mark Poster

#distant #easy #experience #film #part

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#mythical-beasts #stardust #experience

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#experience

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#because #become #experience #human #human experience

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #close #creativity #heard #i

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#altogether #argue #certain #experience #fundamentalism

I'm really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to call it. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#call #changes #experiences #fold #i