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On unfinished work and the choice to set it aside.

Not every abandoned project ends badly. A filmmaker unhappy with how a movie wrapped can still watch it find an audience, and a cluttered hard drive full of half-built ideas is a familiar feeling for anyone who creates. This page gathers quotes on that theme. Compare with Like quotes nearby.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Army
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Nov 07, 2020

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

Quotes by Alexandra Kosteniuk

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

When I was 15, Dad left the family for good. I didn't want to believe it at the time, but the fact was that he deserted us kids and abandoned Mom after 25 years of marriage.

Quotes by Alex Tizon

Country
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Nov 07, 2020

When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.

Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.

New
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Nov 07, 2020

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

These lines treat abandonment less as failure than as an honest part of making things. For related reading, visit Life quotes or Me quotes.

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