- People
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're headed, I mean you never know what the writer might think of next.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020