“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”
Variant: I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
Source: East of Eden
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On being in show business (as quoted in “FLASHBACK: Debbie Reynolds Recalls Poor Upbringing and How Gene Kelly Helped Her Career in Early ET Interviews” https://www.etonline.com/news/206086_debbie_reynolds_recalls_poor_upbringing_and_how_gene_kelly_helped_her_career_early_et_interviews (ET Online; 2016 Dec 29)
"The Nightingale and the Rose"
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
“I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.”
As quoted in "The Red Gaze"' in Expressionism (2004) by Norbert Wolf, p. 92
Undated
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.”
“I've seen these women all my life, I know how they walk, I know how they talk…”
Response after being asked how she felt playing a heterosexual in Nashville, on her album Modern Scream (1975)
“These are the ugliest people I have ever seen in my life. I have to buy this!”
When looking at the back of Metallica's Kill 'Em All.
On his greater appreciation of the scenery of the world, after his near-death experience, as quoted in "Did atheist philosopher see God when he 'died'?" by William Cash, in National Post (3 March 2001).