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She was like a dream I'd given up long ago. A different life, a better me. A chance to wash the filth away. — Chanel Cleeton

We ought to live each day as though it were our last day here below. But if I did, alas, I know it would have killed me long ago. — Piet Hein

And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago? — Ward Churchill

In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago, — Masahiro Sakurai

She'd learned long time ago that nothing wonderful lasted forever — Nicholas Sparks

I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been. — Etta James

I'd learned long ago that patience was often rewarded. Certainly, impatience rarely was. — Todd Borg

I feel like I grew up too fast a long time ago. — Kendall Jenner

I love words," said Livvie. "I have always loved and respected words ... since a long time ago. — Susan Trott

I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.' — Elmore Leonard

All we have of freedom
All we use or know
This our fathers bought for us
Long and long ago — Rudyard Kipling

If I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago. — Dennis Miller

I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it. — Maya Angelou

I gave my heart away to somebody long time ago- when I was barely a man. And I never got it back. — Jalpa Williby

And now, at dusk, outside my window, the trees shake their heads like disco dancers in the strobe lights of nightlife long ago. — Martin Amis

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it. — Frederik Pohl

Jesus loves me! This I know
As He loved so long ago
Taking children on His knee
Saying, Let them come to Me. — Anna Bartlett Warner

I seem to have misplaced my heart so long ago and I don't know where to even begin looking for it. — Claire Contreras

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time. — Damon Albarn

Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not.' I — Irene Hannon

If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago. — Lois Greiman

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere. — Annie Dillard

When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago. — Dana Gould

I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid. — Maggie Stiefvater

Long ago I dreamed of being a hero in your company" Halli said Huskily "I'm sorry to say your reality disappoints me — Jonathan Stroud

Today's middle class lives better than did the Royalty of not so long ago, and yet humans today don't seem very happy. — Russ Harris

Some of us learned long ago not to pee in the pool in which we swim., seeing the error in thinking that wealth-at-any-cost could buy you a new pool. — Karla Black

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money. — Edgar Degas

Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the locks add an allure she wouldn't otherwise have. — Toni Morrison

We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago! — Taylor Mali

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled. — Connie Stevens

Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing. — Janice Macleod

What it is
is the memory of a dance
a song you heard long ago
to hear it is to be young again
and for once
for once you are happy — Julio Alexi Genao

A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me. — Liz Sheridan

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. — Brigitte Bardot

Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving. — John D. Rockefeller

The oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to com — Elyne Mitchell

Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since. — Anne Elizabeth Moore

... what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to. — Nick Mancuso

There was a time, not long ago
When flowers grew all year
When days were long
And nights star-strewn
And men lived free from fear — Katherine Arden

She was a shadow, kept alive by a flame of hatred for somebody who had long ago forgotten all about her. — Jean Rhys

I educate myself on the polar ice caps, vaporized long ago by warfare, and an explorer named Christopher Columbus who proved the earth was round. — Lauren DeStefano

There was a long-ago saying that was still heard from time to time in town: Waverleys know where to find the truth, they just can't stomach it. Bay — Sarah Addison Allen

Every generation", Aby Warburg mused long ago, "gets the Renaissance of Antiquity that it deserves. — Anonymous

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. - [Sara] — Lisa Kleypas

I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away. — Lee Child

It is a long time ago. So many lives ago
I get them all confused, don't you? — Kim Stanley Robinson

The cabbie's eyes sort of glazed over. Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine. — Esi Edugyan

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife. — Mahatma Gandhi

One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings — Timothy Zahn

My mother taught me long ago that only madmen fight wars they cannot win. — George R R Martin

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides. — Jesse Jackson

O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? — James Weldon Johnson

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago ... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it. — Rick Wakeman

But if you're asking who I need more? Who I want to be with more? Who my heart craves more? My heart decided that for me a long time ago, Sydney. — Colleen Hoover

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery. — Charles Bukowski

I'm on a quest, I think," he said, not having realised this before. "Or something like one."
"Those went out of fashion a long time ago. — Max Gladstone

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state. — Walter Lippmann

He had learned long ago that life became much easier if you ignored what was not right before you. — Joe Abercrombie

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago. — Graham Nash

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you. — Bill Walton

Already it was beginning to feel like something that happened to somebody else, a long time ago. — Neil Gaiman

If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself. — Mahatma Gandhi

She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she ... — Gregory Maguire

It was hard to tell a person's age when poverty had probably robbed them of good health a long time ago. — April White

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago. — Edward Snowden

I realized a long time ago not to worry about whodunnit; the more answers you find, the more questions they'll keep raising. — Moxie Mezcal

I left you a long time ago," I whispered, reaching up to place a hand over my breaking heart. "I just didn't realise it. — Madeline Sheehan

He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing. — Cassandra Clare

You saved me a long time ago — Kristen Day

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life. — Robert Brault

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107) — Irvin D. Yalom

Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago. — Roberto Bolano

A flaw does not make a man worthless," Raphael had once said to Dmitri. "Else I would've been discarded long ago. — Nalini Singh

I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians. — Chuck Pfarrer

Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together. — Terence McKenna

I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago. — Al Jourgensen

At times it is so enjoyable to mire your neighbor into the filth you already got stuck in long ago! — Igor Eliseev

You can do anything. Put stuff on YouTube. You can create your own media, which you couldn't do not so long ago. — Marisa Coughlan

All is the same
time has gone by
some day you come
some day you'll die
someone has died
long time ago. — Cesare Pavese

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies. — Ken Wilber

I've been sifting through the layers
of dusty books and faded papers.
They tell a story I used to know;
one that happened so long ago. — Kate Wolf

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them. — Dalai Lama

I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.' — Katharine Hepburn

Hating all the cool kids takes an awful lots of energy and I'd given up on it a long long time ago. — John Green

I learned a long time ago that it doesn't make me less of a woman because my babies come out of a different place. My C-sections have been fine. — Angie Harmon

I quit shoelaces a long time ago.. — Harry Styles

What, and end up like you? Wistfully recalling a lover from long ago? Please. — Elizabeth Carlton

Long ago, bats had been a symbol of good luck, but over the years they had come to symbolize safe travels through the darkness of space. — Marissa Meyer

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love. — Dagobert D. Runes

You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill. — Chill Wills

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths. — Matt Nix

Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so. — Janet Horne

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile. — Don McLean

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. — Anais Nin

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws. — Clarence Darrow

She herself had given up washing long ago, and besides, people no longer believed in stale urine, either for one purpose or another. — Halldor Laxness

So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream? — John Lennon