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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never try to recreate something 'bad' on purpose.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open to everything. It'll find the person or persons who are supposed to do it.
- Genuine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to develop the technologies required for a genuine interplanetary expedition: centrifugal gravity to avoid bodily harm and a truly closed biosphere.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.
- Blatant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having grown up in a Catholic family, while I felt like I was never conscious of any blatant anti-Semitism, I was aware of a slightly insidious, us-versus-them mentality. A lot of my best friends and early girlfriends were Jewish, and I encountered what was more of a suburban small-mindedness, of people needing to defend their tribe.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The joke is that no matter how much we think we can evolve, we'll never escape our limitations.
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- Nov 07, 2020