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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise - then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I'm a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people's riches or success.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never good academically. It was mainly my own fault.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of fighters, when I fight them, they stay hit forever and never fight again.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone unloads on me, I keep my head moving; I don't freeze. I punch back with them. The occasion never gets to me. Not one bit. I enjoy it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.
- Falter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
- Boss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020