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Before Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They…
- This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the…
- [Grandfather] would manufacture funnies with Grandmother before she died about how he was in love with other women who were not her. She knew it…
- I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told…
- Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become…
- Every moment before this one depends on this one.
- Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?
- And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or…
- Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the…
- You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how…
- What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.
- I think after you live it's like before you lived.
- Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of…
- There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You…
- This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in…
- ...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
- But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history…
- Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
- A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is…
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