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Before Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just 'talents.'…
- Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official…
- And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its…
- My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time…
- It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out…
- Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you…
- a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he…
- I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
- He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always, and…
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