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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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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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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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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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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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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
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"I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things."
Writing
"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."
Thought
"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."
Reading
"I never worked in an office in my life."
Life
"As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time."
Time
"But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection."
Employment
"In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you."
Fact
"But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it."
Computer
"I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all."
Science
"A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment."
Environment
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