- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was never trained for anything.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite thing is a brand-new project from scratch because you really never know how they're going to come to life. Going back for the third and fourth time to old ones is very gratifying, but it's not my favorite use of my creativity.
- Perception
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.
- Excluded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never make a joke or try for humor at someone else's expense. In a high-stakes environment, everyone needs to feel safe.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020