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Before Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make…
- The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to…
- Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end…
- A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the…
- Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and…
- The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project…
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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
- 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