- 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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.
- American Soldiers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.
- Advising
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.
- Faraway
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
- Necessity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020