- Being
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn't really - she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn't want one of my hats. She made her own.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
My British mum met my American dad when she was on holiday in the United States when she was 19. She kinda never looked back. I was born in the United States, raised in Montana and London.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If you're not aware that this can happen, you can be seduced by evil. We need inoculations against our own potential for evil. We have to acknowledge it. Then we can change it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
- Fountain Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd have to decide, each time I stopped, how long I was likely to stop for in order to know whether or not to put the cap on. But I never know. So instead, I use a ballpoint - a Montblanc, to be precise - the most comfortably balanced pen I've ever found.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early in the year, you never know how teams are going to be.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I see it, my focus has never been on masculine power rampant and triumphant but rather on the antithesis: masculine power impaired.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was never going to be a scholar.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was only 57 when he died. That's one of the things that makes me worried. You never know what's around the corner. I don't want to go at 57 and not having done anything but played darts.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020