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Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information. — Douglas Rushkoff
True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. — William Goldman
He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring… — George Orwell
I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important… — Ayn Rand
She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had… — Ayn Rand
Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein,… — Bill Bryson
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night,… — Jack Kerouac
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather… — Lewis Carroll
I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women. — Anne Lamott
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's… — J D Salinger
Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me! — Michael Crichton
Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams — Wystan Hugh Auden
[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation. — Orhan Pamuk
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but… — Mark Twain
You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can't be anywhere except together — Francesca Lia Block
And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was… — Isaac Asimov
I never change, except in my affections. — Oscar Wilde

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