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"The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat."

John le Carre on Experience

More quotes about Experience

  • "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

    Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

  • "The only source of knowledge is experience."

    Albert Einstein on Experience

  • "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

    C. S. Lewis on Experience

  • "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

    Oscar Wilde on Experience

  • "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

    Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by John le Carre

  • "By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way."

  • "When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt."

  • "I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."

  • "I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making."

  • "More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature."

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