"The first step, my son, which one..." - Quote by Voltaire
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
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More on Beginning
“The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.”
“There is no beginning too small.”
“I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.”
More on Life
“My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.”
“Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.”
“I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.”