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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
- Demonstrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn't occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn't think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum used to tell me to never boil my cabbages twice, and I think it's artistically valid. While I do find myself on similar themes in my books, I try not to repeat myself, and that's something which is all too easy to do in series books.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when 'Grease' came out, I used to force my mum to try and grease my hair back, and it was never long enough, and literally I'd be screaming at her, 'Do it. Just do it!'.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020