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Begin Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on…
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more…
- The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person,…
- I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
- We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact.…
- In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself…
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- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. — Marcus Aurelius
- If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he… — Francis Bacon
- I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for… — Abigail Adams
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;… — James A. Baldwin