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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana

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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. – George Santayana

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Well, my background is journalism. I dont have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. – Dave Eggers

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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on Madden. – Billie Joe Armstrong

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Experience is a great teacher. – John Legend

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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. – E. M. Forster

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