#beg

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy. ↗

— Dean Inge

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If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time. ↗

— Dean Inge

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This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#fresh-starts #new-beginnings #reinvention #time #change

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. ↗

— Henry Adams

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