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Firsts Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is…
- For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is…
- When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives…
- The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong