- 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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Nov 07, 2020
When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance to see a Tony-winning actress in a role she won the Tony for.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What made me so brave? Maybe it was being the middle kid of 11, and we all had to share one bathroom. New underwear? I never discovered that until I got into college.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is off-limits. There's just some things I cannot crack. Politics I can't do. When I start to talk about it, I just get really angry and super sincere. I have never found a way to craft all of that absurdity into funny.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some useful advice for all of my Asian-American brothers and sisters - never go paint-balling with a Vietnam veteran.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first year I lived in New York, I never ate out. I literally just ate lentils and brown rice at home. Sometimes I'd treat myself to this half chicken from Chinatown that cost $3.50.
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- Nov 07, 2020