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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."
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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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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
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"In my beginning is my end."
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"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
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"The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium."
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"You always think you're better than you are in the beginning."
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"Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big."
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"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor."
Writing
"I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers."
Thought
"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 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
"Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know."
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
"Novel writing wrecks homes."
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
"There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end."
Beginning
"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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