Quotes with never-was

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  • Abbie Hoffman The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • W. H. Auden The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Raymond Chandler The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Doug Larson The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Oscar Wilde The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Einstein The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alfred E. Smith The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
    Source: Individual Liberty Voluntary Cooperation a Remedy
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Anthony Holden The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Albrecht Durer The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • T. S. Eliot The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bill Hicks The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • John Ruskin The best work never was and never will be done for money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Jackie Collins The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
    Jackie Collins
    English novelist (1937 - 2015)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Carolyn Wells The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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