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So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the… — Italo Calvino
Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like," they say to me,… — Italo Calvino
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer.… — Unknown Author
Once upon a time â€“ for that is how all stories should begin â€“ there was a boy who lost his mother. — John Connolly
I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a… — Jeanette Winterson
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin. — Salman Rushdie
The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to… — Caroline Knapp
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin… — Gretel Ehrlich
I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't… — Bell Hooks
We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity… — Peggy Noonan
I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now… — Alex Haley
It's quite simple really. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or… — William P. Young
If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of… — Adrienne Rich
It should begin with friendship, I think. Suddenly I cannot look at him. It should begin with friendship and truly knowing who a person is,… — Lisa Ann Sandell
I begin with writing the first sentenceâ€”and trusting to Almighty God for the second. — Laurence Sterne
You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this,… — Lorrie Moore
We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves. As author and mythologist… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us… — Ursula K. Le Guin
When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I… — Jane Austen

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