- Well, personal experience isn't everything.
- I disagree. I think personal experience is everything.
5 seconds sound clip from the Shadowlands movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:25:49.557 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I wrote this when I was 22, Spanish Civil War. It's called Snow in Madrid.
- Softly, so casual, lovely, so light, so light, the cruel sky lets fall something one does not fight.
- Touched?
- Yes.
- Touched? That's good. That's about its level.
- So you may ask, when was I ever in Madrid? The answer is, never.
- Well, personal experience isn't everything.
- I disagree. I think personal experience is everything.
- So reading is a waste of time?
- No, it's not a waste of time, but reading is safe, isn't it? Books aren't about to hurt you.
- Why should one want to be hurt?
- Well, just because something hurts, it doesn't make it more true or more significant.
- Pain is a tool. If you like, pain is God's megaphone...
- Megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
[...]
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Actors: Anthony Hopkins (C. S. Lewis), Debra Winger (Joy Davidman), Edward Hardwicke (Warren Lewis), Joseph Mazzello (Douglas Gresham)
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