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Ralph Ellison

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

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"The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."

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"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."

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

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

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"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

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"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

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"Everyone has to start somewhere. So get out there and start."

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"Everything started as nothing."

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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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"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed."
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"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."
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"Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action."
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"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy."
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"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Education is all a matter of building bridges."
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"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike."
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"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."
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