- Just
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Dust
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've fixed hard problems of all kinds, civil rights and business problems. It's the stuff I like to do, and I'm good at it, as a matter of fact... and I never left my conscience at the door.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I get older, there's this new realisation and it's almost like a relief, and that is that I can never be who I once was, but only who I want to become.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of England. Of course, I will never know, but I think I prefer what did happen.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never quite know how to describe what I do. I normally just say, 'Oh, I'm a magician', which probably puts fairly naff ideas in people's minds but is pleasantly conversation-stopping.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020