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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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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 woman at the beginning of all great things."
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"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."
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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."
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"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."
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"I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides."
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"Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out."
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"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."
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"This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them."
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"The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress."
Work
"I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this."
Desire
"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor."
Writing
"A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts."
Home
"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
Books
"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."
Fool
"Novel writing wrecks homes."
Writing
"There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end."
Beginning
"The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day."
Writing
"They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive."
Time
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