“Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle.”

“Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end, life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.”

V.S. Naipaul book Half a Life

“The instinctive Indian sense that nothing begins and nothing ends. We are all living in an eternal present in which what was and what will be is contained in what is, or to put it in a more contemporary idiom, that life is a series of sequel to history.”

Shashi Tharoor book The Great Indian Novel

“Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all — why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?”

Max Stirner book The Ego and Its Own

“In actual history, events overlap; you cannot, except by a confessed fiction, state the point at which the event called the Middle Ages ends and the event called the Modern Period begins.”

R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) British historian and philosopher

“Wisdom always comes after the event.”

Swami Samarpanananda Monk, Author, Teacher

“Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

“In every interview I've done since the beginning, [I'm asked] 'How do you feel about opening doors?' And I always say, 'There are two men who opened the doors for all of us, and they were Feliciano and Santana.”

Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada

“This sequel to The Female Eunuch is the book I said I would never write.”

Germaine Greer (1939) Australian feminist author

“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays