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1 " From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was. "
― Nevada Barr , Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)
2 " I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments "
― John Steinbeck , Travels with Charley: In Search of America
3 " Now he had chanced on one of he standard hard-on sessions of the shower, as on both sides of him and across the room three queens sported horizontal members which they turned around from time to time to conceal or display, barely exchanging looks as they resolved. The old men took no interest in this activity, knowing perhaps from long experience that it rarely meant anything or led anywhere, was a brief and helpless surrender to the forcing-house of the shower. In a few seconds the hard-on might pass from one end of the room to the other with the foolish perfection of a Busby Berkeley routine. "
― Alan Hollinghurst , The Swimming-Pool Library
4 " India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passionand abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age "
5 " With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)... "
― , Comentarios Reales de los Incas, I
6 " The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience the task of surviving prosperity. "
7 " The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. "
8 " I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease. "
