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When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek… — Anais Nin
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in… — Joan Didion
It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what… — Melina Marchetta
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance. — Alexandre Dumas
Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers.… — Adam Smith
He was still frowning at the cake, looking at it as if he expected it to sprout dozens of legs and begin scuttling toward him,… — Karen Marie Moning
This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing… — Jonathan Franzen
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We… — Rick Warren
We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent… — George Eliot
I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk.… — Haruki Murakami
...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music, dire warning at… — Karen Marie Moning
You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for… — Lucy Christopher
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how… — Henry Ford
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement. — Alain de Botton
Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable. — George MacDonald
To begin is no more agony than opening your hand. — June Jordan
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease… — Khalil Gibran
That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding… — Sarah Dessen
What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do… — Thomas Harris
When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift. — Eve Ensler
How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it?… — Harold Bloom
How d’you spell ‘belligerent’?” said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. “It can’t be B — U — M —”… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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