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In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees — Philip Roth
It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, thatâ€™s just what Iâ€™ve gone and done. — Gary Snyder
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the… — Primo Levi
He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started… — Jack London
There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and,… — Sue Monk Kidd
Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I started adding up all the things I couldn't do. — Sylvia Plath
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly… — Jane Austen
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty… — Alice Hoffman
When they separated, the freckleless spot between Pete's eyes was bright red. Before anything else could be said or done, May grabbed her bike and… — Maureen Johnson
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started. — John Updike
I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and… — Judy Blume
I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop.… — Chris Cleave
I hated leaving a hole in the smoking world, and so I recruited someone to take my place. People have given me a lot of… — David Sedaris
I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied. — Brandon Mull
I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, thatâ€™s why other people hated them… — Harper Lee
Iâ€™m going, and donâ€™t you dare try to stop me.â€ I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to… — Claudia Gray
There's something strange about you-" she started to say. Oh, well, thanks!" he chuckled, his brown eyes twinkling at her. — Regina Doman

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