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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job... He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People were not ready to accept me as a baseball player. The easiest part of that whole thing, chasing the Babe's record, was playing the game itself. The hardest thing was after the game was over, dealing with the press. They could never understand.
- Grad School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
- Nov 07, 2020
I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.
- Insurgency
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020