Long Before Quotes

370 quotes by 319 authors

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long… — Tom Wolfe
If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination.… — Julian Baggini
American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do,… — Pat Conroy
You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement… — Kim Stanley Robinson
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of… — Cormac McCarthy
Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose itâ€™s an early… — Eudora Welty
Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and… — Joanna Russ
Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We… — Vladimir Nabokov
He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If only youâ€™d remember before ever you sit down to write that youâ€™ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply… — J D Salinger
An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded… — Salman Rushdie
You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad… — Megan McCafferty
How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope? — Elizabeth Lowell
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you. — Toni Morrison
You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that. — Holly Black
Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit,… — Paulo Coelho
There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. — Dodie Smith
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at… — Toni Morrison

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