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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'd had books in my house growing up, but we had never had anything like lectures. I had never written an essay for my mother. I had never taken an exam. Because I was working a lot as a kid, I just hadn't elected to read that much.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, I was born and raised the youngest of seven children on this really beautiful mountain in Southern Idaho. But my dad had some radical beliefs. And because of those beliefs, we were isolated. So I was never allowed to go to school or to the doctor.
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask because, until that moment, I had never heard of it.
- Point Of View
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a handful of memoirs to get a sense of what the genre meant. I needed to learn the fundamentals of the craft. I had never written a word of narrative. What is a tense shift, what is point of view? I didn't know any of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I never attended elementary schools of any kind, I missed most of the books that were popular with other kids my age. There was an exception, however, which was 'Harry Potter.' My grandmother gave me the first book when I was about 13, and I read it, then read all the rest.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things about my childhood that I really loved the most, writing about those things was hard because I knew they would never happen again.
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- Nov 07, 2020
After having babies, I went off most desserts and chocolates. I could never resist a Wispa or a Flake. I can't finish a bar now.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think educating children at pre-school age is vital because then they are picking up good habits that become part of their lifestyle, so it's never going to be a big issue for them to have to learn how to do it.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very high tolerance for gore and blood. I am, like, the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily. I can really stomach anything so, as a result, I have watched a lot of really disgusting stuff that I should probably never have seen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.
- Guerrilla
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- Nov 07, 2020
For those uninitiated in the art of guerrilla war tactics: Smear campaigns never run fair or square. So just to set the record straight: I'm not a drug addict, I don't smoke or drink and I'm most definitely not a lesbian.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.
- Nov 07, 2020
I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020