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"I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?"
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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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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."
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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."
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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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"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."
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"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."
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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
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"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."
Work
"The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?"
Life
"I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it."
Journalism
"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
Movies
"Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there."
Truth
"America was and is the immigrant's dream."
Dream
"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."
Society
"In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic."
Technology
"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."
Work
"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."
Work
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