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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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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I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
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Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!
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The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it.
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I listen and talk to God daily.
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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.
