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anything a guy can do a girl can do better...except being stupid — Kimora Lee Simmons
I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people. — Virginia Woolf
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?… — Oscar Wilde
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be… — James E. Faust
It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I… — Rainer Maria Rilke
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. — Oscar Wilde
I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do… — Diana Wynne Jones
That was all he said, except for "Aaaeerrgghhh." Which is not really a word. But the reason that he screamed "Aaaeerrgghhh" was that Franco had… — Eoin Colfer
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. — Mark Twain
I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous. — Peter McWilliams
So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber… — Douglas Adams
You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll… — Ayn Rand
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life. — Dodie Smith
She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs… — Margaret Mitchell
You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the… — Studs Terkel
Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books. — Edmund White
Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power… — Mahatma Gandhi
Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got… — Tim O'Brien

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