I Begin Quotes

229 I Begin quotes by 197 unique authors

I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the… — Jean-Paul Sartre
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but… — Mark Twain
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree… — Willa Cather
Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read. — Virginia Woolf
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
From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room.… — Sherwood Anderson
Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves… — Anais Nin
When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad. — Tom Bissell
I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at… — Adolf Hitler
I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But… — Fernando Pessoa
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air.… — Yann Martel
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret… — Mary Doria Russell
I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a… — Jeanette Winterson
I begin with writing the first sentenceâ€”and trusting to Almighty God for the second. — Laurence Sterne
When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My… — Charles Bukowski
I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones.… — Elias Canetti
We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact.… — Margaret Atwood
Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I… — Zadie Smith
I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the… — Amy Hempel
I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing… — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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