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On the best nights, he’d appear outside the bookstore window and wait for me to unlock the door. He usually hadn’t had time to shower between doing things with cattle and horses and coming to find me, and he looked older than us and stronger than us. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#dating #glass-girl #henry-whitmire #laura-anderson-kurk #love

From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and again from the Relative to the Absolute. That is the whole truth of the inexistance to the existentialist, formless to the form, Creator to the Creature, one to the every being, absolute to the inabsolute and vis-á-vis, soforth every single thing is temporary, non-existed, so do I, the dream that I dreamed off is simply a 'lie and impermanent too' same as in the mortal world whatever I do experience. ↗

— Upanishad

#god #impermanence #lie #self #spiritual

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. ↗

— H. Raven Rose

#writer #writer-quote #writers-on-writing #experience

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#pessimism #experience

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it. ↗

— W.G. Sebald

#experience

Experience by itself proves nothing. Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience

[In reference to vaginas] Someone saying you're "too loose"? Maybe that person's previous experience has been with women who weren't aroused (which, in the case of young adults, ins't that unusual)...Since many people think that penetration is supposed to be painful at first, a lot of them don't know how to wait for full arousal or make penetration comfortable. So, if a partner is saying you're "too loose," either they're simply experiencing a relaxed, aroused partner for the first time, or they're blowing smoke - either because they think it's the thing to say, or they were expecting to feel trapped in a vise, which is not how penetration should feel for either partner. ↗

— Heather Corinna

#sexuality #teenagers #experience

For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.… I think it’s very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don’t know where it’ll go. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#dreams

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#employment #slavery #education

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#josephine #experience