- Grateful
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- 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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I'm a reasonably good self-taught historian of the 1930s and '40s. I've never wanted to write about another time or place. I wouldn't know what to say about contemporary society.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a passion for luggage - trunks and so on. I have a collection of them, but I can never resist buying another piece.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020