"The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead."

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"The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead."

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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Beginning, Idleness, Vice

"The past is but the past of a beginning."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Beginning, Past

"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Beginning, First, Understanding

"The first stage of any development is infancy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Beginning, Development, Infancy, Stage, Growth

"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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Explore more quotes by Ralph Ellison

"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

People

"By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication."

Communication

"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

People

"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed."

Time

"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike."

Time

"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."

Life

"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."

Truth

"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

American

"Education is all a matter of building bridges."

Education

"Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values."

People