- Music
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
'What is your desired salary?' The unwritten rule when it comes to salary is this: whoever proposes a number first loses. When you interview, you should never feel pressured to answer this question. Simply let your interviewer know that the most important thing to you is how well you fit the position.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work with a lot of young people who have poems that are changing their lives, that they're eager to talk about, but every now and then when I meet someone, maybe someone of my parents' generation, and I tell them that I write poetry, they'll begin to recite something that they memorized when they were in school that has never left them.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays about growing up as her child, but I never could finish any of them. I think I was too close to that loss, and too eager to try and resolve things, to make her death make sense.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I never saw images of trans people succeeding.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real, and I grew up with a mother who had babies crawling on her head and spitting up on her when she was wearing gorgeous, expensive things, and it was never an issue.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never felt like I was in my mother's shadow. If anything, I felt like I was in her embrace.
- Nov 07, 2020
I never grew up.
- Certain Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020