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"All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning."
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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
"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."
"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."
"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
"The first stage of any development is infancy."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Marguerite Young
"I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer."
"I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night."
"There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know."
"I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of."
"I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me."
"I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia."
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