“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)
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“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