Quotes about Experience

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about . . .

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.

Ten years ago he would have followed her, but middle-age is the period of sad caution.

to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory...

But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.

Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men

Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest is my twelfth, for it was on that damp and misty day in September I met the Captain for the first time.

Fear is easily experienced, but fun is hard to come by in old age, so I already felt a sense of gratitude to General Omar Torrijos.

Find me an uncomplicated child, Pyle. When we are young we are a jungle of complications. We simplify as we get older.