- Great
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned lots, obviously - the first thing being never to forget to be grateful. The second is not to bear grudges, because in football, luck does not exist.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War. I never truly believed that the War just finished and everyone was happy-clappy, brought out the bunting, and felt everything was okay again. That's definitely not my impression of the fall-out of war.
- Sand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great esteem in which the Nobel prizes are universally held is due to the fact that for several generations they have been given purely on scientific merit and not through lobbying and politicking. I do hope that it will stay this way, and the prizes will never be given according to the number of votes in live TV contests!
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never lived in L.A. I've always done the New York thing.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you get to college, they're never teaching you how to start a credit line or get a loan on a car, things of that nature.
- Nov 07, 2020
Even if you shoot 60, now you're aiming for 59. Golf is something you can never master.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020