Best Afterward Thoughts

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Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. — Amy Tan
Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward... — Harry S. Truman
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward. — Kurt Vonnegut
This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward. — William Faulkner
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains,… — Rebecca Solnit
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you… — Sylvia Plath
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him,… — John Knowles
The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when… — Orson Scott Card
Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the… — Ernest Hemingway
She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward… — Steven Galloway
Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor… — Christina Rossetti
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes… — Tim O'Brien
Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long. — Kim Stanley Robinson
When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward.… — Gene Wolfe
Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers to life's important… — Marisha Pessl
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder… — Umberto Eco
When I bite you, it'll be because I want to make your toes curl and your hair stand on end. And you won't need stitches… — Jennifer Rardin
The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with… — George R. R. Martin
We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that… — Alison Croggon
In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand… — Pascal Mercier
Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come… — Rick Riordan
He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and… — Susanna Clarke

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