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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 – 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 it’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
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you — John Irving
My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with. — Michael Chabon
Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because… — Nicole Krauss
We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our… — Maggie O'Farrell
In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up… — C.S. Lewis
Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? — Elizabeth von Arnim
When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to… — Chogyam Trungpa
I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if… — Michael Ondaatje
I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to… — Markus Zusak
When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image… — Graham Greene

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