Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Experience isnt interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In f

Experience isnt interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. – Elizabeth Bowen

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. – Elizabeth Bowen

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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen

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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. – Carl Rogers

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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. – Frank McCourt

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I wouldnt go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. Its a nasty experience. Youre up there all by yourself. Youre so damn exposed. – Elia Kazan

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I hate it when people dont recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to mens work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal – mens writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context. – Ani DiFranco

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