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“Puss hopped down from the couch and rummaged in Marks closet until he found a black leather belt. This he looped along his shoulder, around his waist, and then clasped together. Im off to make war,...”
“Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.”
“I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what Im going to say, or where its going. I have some idea of how long its going to be -- but not what ...”
“When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the drivers seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are the one. Expect gr...”
“Endings and beginnings look just the same.”
“There's never a beginning for eternity.”
“Sure, things die. Yet hard on the heels of every death there comes a birth. And if the life around me is being perpetually refreshed in such a relentless manner, why would I think that the life wit...”
“Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beg...”
“I'd prefer to die in Texas when I'm old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that's where I entered the world, so that's how I'll leave it.”
“a long time ago when cataclysms were commonas sneezes and land masses slidaround the globe looking for placesto settle down and become continents,someone introduced us at a party.”
“But, standing in the fading golden sunlight now, I can feel some of the scars of the summer stabbing over. I can feel the promise of a new beginning.”
“It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we...”
“If there is a moral to this part of the story, and I distrust morals in the same way that I distrust beginnings, it is simply this: know that with which you deal.”
“I believe in love but I don't sit around waiting for it.”
“What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.”
“I cannot fix on the hour or the spot or the look or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
“Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable and praised when they are not praiseworthy.”
“The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.”
“You can't buy love but you can pay heavily for it.”
“How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.”
