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"I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together."
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
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"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."
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"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."
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"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"
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"I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together."
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"The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show."
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"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."
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"There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers."
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"No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you."
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"We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it."
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"Love is the reason you were born."
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"In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it."
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"I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it."
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