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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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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. Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
  • 2. Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar but the best improve with age.
  • 3. In passing we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.
  • 2. I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me… I'm so excited about that I think it's gonna be very cool.
  • 3. I mean why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

3 Anger

  • 1. When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry count to one hundred.
  • 2. Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger it's motivation.
  • 3. I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. So while an incredible amount of progress has been made on this fifth anniversary I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back all the way.
  • 2. It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed and every single one of his friends still after all these years… it's unbelievable.
  • 3. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.

5 Architecture

  • 1. An important work of architecture will create polemics.
  • 2. I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
  • 3. I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
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