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It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself,… — Charles de Lint
Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do… — Charles de Lint
I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write… — Charles de Lint
To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are… — Charles de Lint
I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing… — Winston Churchill
What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has… — Marcus Aurelius
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that… — Jean de la Bruyere
When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power. — Madame de Stael
Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be. — James Anthony Froude
I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how durst men forge… — James Anthony Froude
That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to… — P.G. Wodehouse
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. — Ralph Ellison
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so… — Harper Lee
Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of… — C.S. Lewis
When weâ€™re young nothing offends us, except adults telling us what should. Then when we become adults, nothing offends us, except we are offended on… — Craig Stone
At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he… — Gore Vidal
It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an… — Clarence Darrow
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past. — Evelyn Waugh
Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried… — Jimmy Carter
L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa cÂ° able sans la gra"Â ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error… — Blaise Pascal

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