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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which is always such a mixed bag of letters, recollections, and other data.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and, while fascinating, it is never entertaining or redemptive. But if you want an unadorned portrait of American life (at least in some places) at the beginning of the 21st century, this is the book for you.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 15, I never thought I'd live to see 21. And then I became 21, and I'm like, 'I'll never live to see 30.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.
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- Nov 07, 2020