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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. — James A. Baldwin
That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong? — Franny Billingsley
And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such… — Hermann Hesse
Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and… — Elizabeth Chandler
Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin! — Henry David Thoreau
The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to… — Tammara Webber
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of… — Gaston Bachelard
Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the… — Deepak Chopra
Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in. — Walter de La Mare
The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin. — Alan Moore
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be… — Thomas Merton
Now is the time to make good use of time. Today is the day to begin a perfect day. — Sri Chinmoy
You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other. — John Lennon
Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I don’t write every… — Stephen King
You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing… — Pablo Neruda
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually… — Alan Watts
Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren’t virgins, Min. That’s why there’s people to begin with. — Daniel Handler
If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light… — Arthur Golden
To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form. — Henry Ford
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… — Margaret Atwood
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions… — Elbert Hubbard
...it’d be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, I’ve done that,' Mark said airily. 'It’s a game we used to play,… — Margaret Haddix
we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit… — Jack Zipes

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