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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never started collecting figures or anything like that because I'm slightly completist with things, so if I start down a path, I'm worried where it'll end up - i.e. With a wall of something!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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- Nov 07, 2020
He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
- Grow Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020