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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.
- Bodily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.
- Pretending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me.
- Nov 07, 2020
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
- Secret
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Never look back' is my philosophy.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
As players, we only get opportunities when players get injured and you never want to see anyone get injured.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
- Hardcover
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- Nov 07, 2020