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A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack o

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. – Ian Mcewan

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I dont believe theres any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force. – Ian Mcewan

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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They werent able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively. – Ian Mcewan

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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. – A. E. Housman

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The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. – Richard Wright

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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. – William Ellery Channing

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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. – Peter De Vries

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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. – Samuel Johnson

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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country. – King Abdullah II

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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. – Joseph Campbell

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