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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct… — Voltaire
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally cross-offs. But first… — Ken Kesey
The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table… — Robert Musil
What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too. — Chuck Palahniuk
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm. — Chuck Palahniuk
When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. — C S Forester
Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink. — A. S. Byatt
Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how… — Terry Pratchett
Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy. — Isaac Asimov
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure. — Frank Herbert
When I look in the fridge, I see groceries, but I don't see food. My stomach growls; but there is no appetite. Appetite and hunger… — Julie Gregory
Then it's goodbye, Sangsara for me Besides, girls aren't as good as they look And Samadhi is better than you think When it starts in… — Jack Kerouac
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will… — Victor Hugo
I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an… — H. L. Mencken
Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing… — William Stafford
Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else. — Rudolf Steiner
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. — Albert Einstein
Every great love starts with a great story... — Nicholas Sparks
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no… — George Saunders
We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true… — John Piper
Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight,… — Unknown Author
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling... — V.S. Naipaul

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