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Before Quotes by John Irving
- It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
- It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that…
- Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind…
- You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have…
- My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!
- Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
- Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first…
- I get up early. I like to read a little before anyone but the dog is up. I also like to read at night, not…
- I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a…
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- 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