- Life
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.
- Nov 07, 2020
I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020