Quotes with never-was

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  • Ernest Hemingway I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Robert E. Lee I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Anita Diamant I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Acker Bilk I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.
    Acker Bilk
     
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  • Bette Davis I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.
    Source: Nina J. Easton, Los Angeles Times (January 4, 1989) Bette Davis smoking over Stepmother role
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bette Midler I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.'' I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • David Malouf I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.
    Source: Johnno (2015) 107
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • Ann Beattie I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Antonin Artaud I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Margaret Drabble I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Oscar Wilde I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • H. P. Lovecraft I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Warren Buffett I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Lewis H. Lapham I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • David Bailey I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
    David Bailey
    English fashion and portrait (1938 - )
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  • Leo Rosten I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Seneca I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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