Common Reading Experience

Famous quotes containing the words common, reading and/or experience:

    “Repentance keeps my heart impure;
    But what am I that dare
    Fancy that I can
    Better conduct myself or have more
    Sense than a common man?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)