#peri

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blood #deep #description #experience #explanation

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#combat #experience #fewer #increasingly #journalists

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#conceiving #either #experience #fact #genuine

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.' ↗

— Carol Leifer

#always #anything #because #been #breaking

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#different #different kinds #experience #find #guess

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#definition #give #imperialism #monopoly #necessary

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#brutal #god #learn #most #teachers

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#campaigning #devil #dull #excellent #long

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#difficult #find #hour #i #i can

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part. ↗