“Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.”
Source: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
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                        “Before i knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone….”
 
                            
                        
                        
                        Source: The Autobiography of My Mother
 
                            
                        
                        
                        As quoted in International Herald Tribune (Paris, 5 November 1991)
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer.”
                                        
                                        Playboy interview (1996) 
Context: I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.
                                    
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.”
                                        
                                        From the obit in the Boston Globe. 
Quotations from Borge's performances 
Source: Richard Dyer, "Laughter Was at the Heart of Victor Borge's Many Talents", Boston Globe, 29 December 2000
                                    
 
        
     
                             
                             
                            