- 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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never really been into working out at the gym, or been the kind who maintained a certain physique.
- One Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never dreamed when I was competing at The Championships that I would one day be interviewing the winners on Centre Court for the BBC.
- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.
- Complexities
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.
- Farming
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived all over the country - Michigan, California, Texas, New Jersey, Rhode Island and, now, Maine - but I never understood springtime until I spent 25 years farming in the Ozarks.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
It gets cold here in the Ozarks in the winter. There are often warm winter days, but there are also weeks when the temperature never climbs above freezing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good at - in our past, at least - is figuring out the impact, the consequences, of what our skills have allowed us to do.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020