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Louisa May Alcott
"I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)"
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
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Mary Shelley
"The beginning is always today."
— Mary Shelley
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Truman Capote
"Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring."
— Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
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Homer
"Sing to me, Muse, of the wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus, which brought countless ills upon the Acheans."
— Homer (The Iliad)
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"I am numbed. I am safe. I am over & yet I am creating the new beginning...

--I AM EVOLVING."
— http: yaneygirl.blogspot.com
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
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Gregory Maguire
"It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all."
— Gregory Maguire (Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister)
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"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."
— Meister Eckhart
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
""And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.""
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Aristotle
"Der Anfang ist die Hälfte vom Ganzen."
— Aristotle
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"Aus Furcht vor einem Fehler nichts anzufangen ist das Zeichen eines schlechten Mannes."
— Hitopadesa
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Ezra Pound
"The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth."
— Ezra Pound
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Tom Stoppard
"It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong."
— Tom Stoppard (Arcadia)
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Harlow Shapley
"Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'."
— Harlow Shapley
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