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"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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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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"A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't."
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"The beginning is always today."
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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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"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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"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
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"In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season."
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"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
Truth
"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."
Life
"There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong."
Risk
"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
Reading
"I've never made plans for more than a day ahead."
Opportunity
"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."
Reading
"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."
Joy
"You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out."
Genius
"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."
Genius
"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."
Beginning
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