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I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing cardâ€¦and somehow the… — Joyce Carol Oates
every day a million miracles begin at sunrise! — Eric Jerome Dickey
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on… — John Gardner
I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones.… — Elias Canetti
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions. — Madeleine L'Engle
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out… — Kathleen Norris
. . .and every native has a story of winter â€“ stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling… — Richard Paul Evans
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin. — Ian Mcewan
Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good. — Henry David Thoreau
And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just… — Sue Miller
But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps itâ€™s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come… — Sue Miller
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from… — Rick Moody
It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now… — Ayn Rand
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically… — Mark Twain
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the… — Italo Calvino
When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and… — Pema Chodron
There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to… — Milan Kundera
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe. — Stephen King
Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel… — William Gibson
I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy." Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have?… — Thomas Pynchon

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