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"I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done."
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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 difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."
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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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"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."
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"I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical."
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"Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance."
History
"I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field."
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"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things."
People
"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
People
"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
Soul
"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
Mother
"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
Beauty
"Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him."
People
"I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world."
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