"I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life."

Beginning, Childhood, Existence, Observation, Life

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"I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life."

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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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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."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end."

John Charles Polanyi, Canadian Scientist

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"Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet."

Eric S. Raymond, American Author

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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."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

Alan Bleasdale, British Dramatist

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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."

Richard Roeper, American Critic

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"Everyone has to start somewhere. So get out there and start."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end."

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"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

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"I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning."

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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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"You are on your back at the foot of an aspen. In its trembling shade. She at right angles propped on her elbows head between her hands. Your eyes opened and closed have looked in hers looking in yours. In your dark you look in them again. Still. You feel on your face the fringe of her long black hair stirring in the still air. Within the tent of hair your faces are hidden from view. She murmurs, Listen to the leaves. Eyes in each other's eyes you listen to the leaves. In their trembling shade."

Mindfulness, Connection, Nature, Observation, Affection

"I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments."

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"But it is only since I have ceased to live that I think of these things and the other things. It is in the tranquillity of decomposition that I remember the long confused emotion which was my life, and that I judge it, as it is said that God will judge me, and with no less impertinence. To decompose is to live too, I know, I know, don't torment me, but one sometimes forgets."

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"In order to be company he must display a certain mental activity. But it need not be of a high order. Indeed it might be argued the lower the better. Up to a point. The lower the order of mental activity the better the company. Up to a point."

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"There's never an end for the sea."

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"If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love."

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"I always thought old age would be a writer's best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory's gone, all the old fluency's disappeared. I don't write a single sentence without saying to myself, 'It's a lie!' So I know I was right. It's the best chance I've ever had."

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