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Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#fiction #experience

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience. ↗

— Kathy Bates

#harry-s-law #lawyers #experience

Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign saying GET YOUR BLACK TULIPS HERE. Every nerve in my body was on man-alert, screaming, "incoming! ↗

— Lauren Willig

#funny-and-random #lauren-willig #spies #spy #funny

I would have married her before I went away to war too, just to make sure that someone else didn’t. ↗

— V.T. Davy

#married #war #art

That’s one of the best things about horror movies – they’re not real life. They’re like emotional cardio. They give us the chance to be terrified in a consequence-free environment. That’s the joy of all fiction, really: you get the benefit of experiencing something without the burden of having to actually experience it. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#blog-post #rothfuss #tinker-s-packs #experience

She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up to her, and her alone, to choose what path her life would take. ↗

— Christine E. Schulze

#adventuresome-women #ashlei #choice #coming-of-age #equal

The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not only do I not tell, but I don’t even show. All I do is sign the canvas and try to sell it. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#canvas #conceptual-art #empty #funny #humor

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ↗

— Emile Zola

#artist #gift #nothing #without #work

Ann: If we know God, we do not need to know why He allows us to experience what we do. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#faith #gods-will #trials #experience

I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm. ↗

— David Keith

#another #bag #charm #fake #his