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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash and where previously the brain held a dead fact the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

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Category: Experience

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
  • 2. Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
  • 3. Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie – I just want to make good ones.
  • 2. When I receive letters from girls that say 'You give me confidence ' I think 'Wow this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.
  • 3. My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.

3 Anger

  • 1. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
  • 2. Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts his presidency and worse our economy will be paralyzed.
  • 3. I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger release frustration.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 2. But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'
  • 3. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Every one who has a heart however ignorant of architecture he may be feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
  • 2. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
  • 3. The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.
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