#peri

I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things. ↗

— Lee Child

#life-experience #experience

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end. ↗

— John Dewey

#experiences #attitude

If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you. ↗

— Nikolas Schreck

#magic #occult #paganism #sex-magick #experience

Still, experience has taught me that knowing one's enemy is key to winning any battle. ↗

— Michelle Zink

#experience

I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience. ↗

— Joe Dunthorne

#humour #sex #virginity #experience

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#journeys #trees #experience

I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no way I can control the story you tell yourself from my book. Your own experiences, preferences, prejudices, mood at the moment, current events in your life, needs and wants influence how you read my every word. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#experience

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience. ↗

— Louise DeSalvo

#writing #experience

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well. ↗

— Criss Jami

#artists #artists-life #creative #creativity #experiences

Two adolescent girls on a hot summer night--hardly the material of great literature, which tends to endow all male experience (that of those twin brothers who found themselves adrift so many years ago in the dark northern woods for instance) with universal radiance. Faithless sons, wars and typhoons, fields of blood, greed and knives: our literature's full of such stories. And yet suppose for an instant that it wasn't the complacent father but his bored daughter who was the Prime Mover; suppose that what came first wasn't an appetite for drama but the urge to awaken it. Mightn't we then permit a single summer in the lives of two bored girls to represent an essential stage in the history of the universe? ↗

— Kathryn Davis

#patriarchy #experience