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Before Quotes by Ian Mcewan
- I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no…
- She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back…
- There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or…
- The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
- She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving,…
- The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her…
- He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
- These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood