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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a noble ideal; empathy is so worth aiming for in life that the same must hold true in art. But personally, I can't think too deeply about that when I'm working, or I'd never get anything down on the page.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.
- Equal Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been deeply touched by the many telegrams, cables and letters that have come to my bedside. It is wonderful to know that I have so many friends and well-wishers both among those it has been my privilege to meet and among the loyal unknown thousands who have seen me on the screen and whom I have never seen at all.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I never had any use for him or anyone connected with that science.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Italian is the most passionate lover in the world, it may be because he is the most restrained. Rigid convention denies him all contact with the lovelier girls, who never are free from chaperons.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of people that never thought I was going to be the guy that I am now. Now when I see them, it's fun to see how people are. I don't think they're being fake. I think now they just see me from a different eye.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
- Eternally
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started off as an Australian model. I had so many knockbacks, having short hair and being rejected, and I always thought: I'm never gonna get to where I want to get unless I start looking more feminine.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never binge-watched TV before 'Orange.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020