Susan Hill Quotes
I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.
Quotes to Explore
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
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He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.
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Through such impressions one gathers oneself, wins oneself back from the exacting multiplicity, which speaks and chatters there (and how talkative it is!), and one slowly learns to recognize the very few Things in which something eternal endures that one can love and something solitary that one can gently take part in.
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If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.
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Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
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Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head... the rational manipulation... as well as the literary and artistic manipulation.
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I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.
