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"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."
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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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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."
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"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."
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"The past is but the past of a beginning."
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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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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"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."
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"The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end."
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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."
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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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"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."
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"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."
Reading
"I never worked in an office in my life."
Life
"I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet."
Movies
"This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late."
Life
"I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book."
Writing
"But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction."
Science
"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."
Books
"I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do."
Time
"I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell."
Writing
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