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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West

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Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each others nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed. – Rebecca West

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Ideology
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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. – Rebecca West

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History
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being ones own Trojan horse. – Rebecca West

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mom
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. – Stephen Fry

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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. – John le Carre

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. – Quintilian

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I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. – Chuck Close

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. – Stephen Vincent Benet

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