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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.


A. S. Byatt

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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
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LEV GROSSMAN A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which somet...
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MARA BROCK AKIL The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momen...
ANATOLE BROYARD Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM It’s hard to say where a story begins and ends. You have to draw an arbitrary line somewhere. Some...
THOMAS LLOYD QUALLS This is not because IRS employees are bad human beings or lazy human beings or stupid human beings; ...
NEWT GINGRICH The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah'...
ADAM HAMILTON Love and fear is what makes us who we are, fragile human beings.
NAGOTSY ONAVUH ...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally blo...
ALAIN DE BOTTON Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.
BILL JAMES That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca...
SAM RAIMI I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and mo...
DENIS O'HARE I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it...
DAVID CHASE It's all a series of serendipities
with no beginnings and no ends.
Such infinitesimal po...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Beginnings do not divulge their ends,
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MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends.
CHU HSI I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think ...
DAVID CROSBY And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human being...
MARK HADDON One of the beauties of watching our show is that, really and truly, it remains fresh because you're ...
BILL COSBY It is not love that brings us all human beings where we are now. It is just the realization of love.
EPHDAN Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
HO CHI MINH I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.
ALLAN SHERMAN Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
EMILY DICKINSON We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the ...
ANNE BISHOP The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and ...
JAMES PLATH All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning...
MEGHAN O'ROURKE I have a problem with beginnings... and endings... and middles. But I don't know what else I wou...
MIRIAM TOEWS I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.
ANGELA BASSETT Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists sa...
EDUARDO GALEANO All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just ...
DAN GILROY It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
CARROT TOP I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.
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ZENDAYA Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where...
SUSAN J. TWEIT That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capabl...
SAM RAIMI Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
SIMONE WEIL One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution tha...
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PAUL AUSTER The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Fe...
VICTOR HUGO As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.
MARY KAY ANDREWS No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're cle...
GENE RODDENBERRY Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some a...
SIGMUND FREUD All of his life had been filled with crashing ends to promising beginnings.
R.A. SALVATORE We are dealing with human beings, and human beings always need something more than technically prope...
CARDINAL LOZANO It's a phenomenon that people treat lightly, and it should not be treated lightly. It's something th...
GEORGE GUIDALL We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU Men are not human beings,they are human doings
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ALEXIS ARGUELLO An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature...
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EVELYNE BROCHU This is an important march for human rights. Now, it is time to wake up so they can respect us as hu...
MIGUEL MIRANDA We're imperfect human beings. We're destined to fail. The only love that never fails is God's love. ...
VICTORIA BYLIN That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end...
RICHARD BACH He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have ...
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ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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BETTE DAVIS The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHY All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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VICTOR HUGO Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.
MILLER WILLIAMS It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we lo...
TIMOTHY DALTON Embrace new beginnings and seek forgiveness for past mistakes. Once they may have been a human error...
SAIDA HOSHI I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us hum...
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BILL MAHER In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his cl...
A. S. BYATT I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows wh...
A. S. BYATT What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
A. S. BYATT Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
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A. S. BYATT What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
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A. S. BYATT We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair,...
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A. S. BYATT I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
A. S. BYATT I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor j...
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A. S. BYATT I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think th...
A. S. BYATT Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress bal...
A. S. BYATT There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one...
A. S. BYATT For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' au...
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A. S. BYATT Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a dang...
A. S. BYATT I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that...
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A. S. BYATT I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I do...
A. S. BYATT I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total abse...
A. S. BYATT I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and thei...
A. S. BYATT I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reade...
A. S. BYATT There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are ...
A. S. BYATT I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. P...
A. S. BYATT I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as ...
A. S. BYATT I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Ven...
A. S. BYATT You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain th...
A. S. BYATT You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from boo...
A. S. BYATT The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn&#...
A. S. BYATT My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with ot...
A. S. BYATT I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
A. S. BYATT I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out...
A. S. BYATT In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we ar...
A. S. BYATT If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because eith...
A. S. BYATT It's a terrible poison, writing.
A. S. BYATT It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginat...
A. S. BYATT I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they'...
A. S. BYATT I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite go...
A. S. BYATT The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space conf...
A. S. BYATT In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joi...
A. S. BYATT I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
A. S. BYATT One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there i...
A. S. BYATT I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
A. S. BYATT I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's...
A. S. BYATT If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was ofte...
A. S. BYATT I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathin...
A. S. BYATT I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I l...
A. S. BYATT When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
A. S. BYATT America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep ...
A. S. BYATT I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before ...
A. S. BYATT Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not en...
ANTONIA S. BYATT Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ...
ANTONIA S. BYATT When you feel bad about yourself you reverse your magnet and repel people.
S A GRAFIO Laws control humans, humans created laws.
S A LAWRENCE Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?”
Christabel LaMotte: “Ah, how can we bear it?�...
A.S. BYATT ...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposi...
A.S. BYATT I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be cons...
A.S. BYATT You are safe with me."
"I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.
A.S. BYATT Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one
sensation, fire, from the othe...
A.S. BYATT My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little ga...
A.S. BYATT For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or t...
A.S. BYATT He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months ...
A.S. BYATT Lists are a form of power.
A.S. BYATT That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer...
A.S. BYATT Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of S...
A.S. BYATT Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be...
A.S. BYATT Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
A.S. BYATT The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the...
A.S. BYATT It was hard for a man and a woman to be fiends with no under thought or glimpsed prospect of sex. Th...
A.S. BYATT All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous.
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A.S. BYATT Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not...
A.S. BYATT Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a cultu...
A.S. BYATT A metamorphosis... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. ...
A.S. BYATT There was a moment during this time, when his face was on hers, cheek on cheek, brow on brow, heavy ...
A.S. BYATT Therefore,' said Loki the mockery, to the snake his daughter, 'we need to know everything, or at lea...
A.S. BYATT He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was alw...
A.S. BYATT Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed f...
A.S. BYATT [H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vo...
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A. S. W. ROSENBACH I have seen men hazard their fortunes, go on long journeys halfway around the world, forge friendshi...
A. S. W. ROSENBACH Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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A. A. MILNE Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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A. A. MILNE Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. MILNE To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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A. A. MILNE War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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A. A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
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A. A. MILNE Silence is a text easy to misread.
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A. A. MILNE Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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A. A. MILNE Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing ...
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A. A. HODGE Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
A. A. HODGE Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
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A. A. MILNE How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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S. ANSKY Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.
BREANNA S When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.
NESHIALY S. Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.
S. DUBAY I have just about all I can take of myself.
S. BEHRMAN So? There's two of us and one of you, and whenever we feel like it, we can be three. That's love too...
S. DORA When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it.
NESHIALY S. The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things ...
S. GUDDER To succeed, your "why you do it" must be strong enough to get you out of bed early in the morning.
MICHAEL S. If we always live
in constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
r...
S. TARR But it is the yogic path to be introspective, and to be the best person one can be.
S. IYENGAR People don't care about price, if you have a great story and proposition, they'll buy your product.
MICHAEL S. If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream?
S. BALARAM Think of playing an instrument. When first picking up a new piece of music, a musician hammers out t...
S. CICCARELLI Life travels steeper when we always LACK something and try make up with it
VIGNESH S Being free in Jesus is a luxury. If you really desire to be free in Jesus, you’re going to have to...
GODISNOW1'S ...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to...
S. OHNO As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
S. OHNO உலகம் முழுவதும் வீடுகள் இருக்கின்றன...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN வெற்றி பெற்றவனை விட தோற்றவனிடம் தான்...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN Whenever you're late, make others wonder if they can handle your success if you came on time
VIGNESH S Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor
VIGNESH S If God never gave me one more thing in my life, then you, right now, would be enough. You are my Day...
S. KHUBIAR Our goals are to find an easy way to find high risk (women) and to make the counseling process more ...
S. HUGHES On a superficial level, self-esteem techniques and a tough "refusal to allow others to hurt me" tact...
JUSTIN S. HOLCOMB & LINDSEY A. HOLCOMB I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your...
A. BALASUBRAMANIAM My work is not directly about the social or political.
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