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Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Marley was dead: to begin with. — Charles Dickens
For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it. Old One, do we not? For ever… — Susan Cooper
but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking… — Jose Saramago
They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then… — Terry Pratchett
Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear… — Billy Collins
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. — Elbert Hubbard
I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half… — Robert Frost
For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,… — Doris Lessing
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know… — Neil Gaiman
I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story. — Jonathan Safran Foer
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. — Italo Calvino
Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a… — Lorrie Moore
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin… — Willa Cather
When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need… — John Green
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,… — Margaret Atwood
Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read. — Virginia Woolf
until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going… — C.S. Lewis
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out… — Charles Bukowski
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when… — Bertolt Brecht
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . .… — John F. Kennedy
I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm doing… — Lorrie Moore
For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to… — Helen Keller
The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and… — C.S. Lewis

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