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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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When I begin writing, I have no idea what my novels are ultimately going to be about. I don't have a plot. I never consider a theme. I don't make notes or outlines.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
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Once companies begin to outsource, they never go back.
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To lose hope in the future is to begin to die.
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Everything has to end before it can begin.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.
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You won't win if you don't begin.
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Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.
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After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics.
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Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.
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I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.
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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are, who we are, why we are, then we begin to realize what we are not, who we are not, why we are not. We begin to realize that we don't have basic, substantial, solid, fundamental ground that we can exert anymore. We begin to realize that our ideas of security and our concept of freedom have been purely phantom experiences.
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Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
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When we begin to see each other through what the metaphysician calls, the third eye, we begin to know each other on a level that is beyond what our physical eyes can see.
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We have to begin thinking about that possibility.
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But all they want to do Is tie the poem to a chair with rope And torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose To find out what it really means.
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Riches begin in the form of thought.
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So before we end and then begin, we'll drink a toast to how it's been. A few more hours to be complete, a few more nights on satin sheets. A few more times that I can say, that I've loved these days.
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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
