#starting point

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. ↗

— Janet Frame

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#darkness #direction #down #fact #first

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point. ↗

— Rob Portman

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#even #fix #good #point #security

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. ↗

— Gao Xingjian

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#literature #observing #oneself #point #starting