"I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career."

Beginning, Career, Fact, Literary

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"I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career."

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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 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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"And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then."

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"I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble."

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"The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math."

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"Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone."

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"And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics."

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"I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office."

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"If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded."

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"The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law."

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"You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply."

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"So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive."

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