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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed. — Francis Bacon
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. — Ayn Rand
I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse. — Lilith Saintcrow
We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life,… — Loren Eiseley
There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you. — Neale Donald Walsch
A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the… — Raymond Chandler
I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty… — Reif Larsen
This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't. — Michael Crichton
It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not… — Melina Marchetta
What's love? Something that lasts a week or a month and that's all you can except? Or is it just that some loves have a… — Katherine Applegate
No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa,… — Richelle Mead
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom. — Aimee Bender
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. — Tana French
The sooner this wedding's over the happier I'll be." [Ron] "Yeah" said Harry, "then we'll have nothing to do except find Horcruxes....It'll be like a… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she… — James M. Barrie
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each… — Cyril Connolly
nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing. — Charles Bukowski
Instructions for Adam Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your door keyes. Laugh.… — Jenny Downham

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