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You would think, wouldnâ€™t you, that if you were the child of a happy marriage, then you ought to have a better than average marriage… — Julian Barnes
We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar,… — Orson Scott Card
Death steals everything except our stories. — Jim Harrison
For a moment he could have sworn he smelled violets, which was very peculiar, since he had no idea what violets smelled like, except somehow… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California. — Alan Moore
CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal… — Neil Gaiman
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the… — Terry Pratchett
DNA tells you all the secrets of life,â€™ he used to say. Except for oneâ€”how to live it. — Jennifer Donnelly
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles… — George Eliot
as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game stayed… — Carl Hiaasen
You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians… — Oscar Wilde
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. — Steven Pressfield
He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy.â€ â€œWatch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. Youâ€™ve never seen so… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to… — Diane Setterfield
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. — George Orwell
What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't… — Bill Bryson
I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America's Funniest Home Videos, minus all that pants-dropping business. Except… — Meg Cabot
Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on… — Philip K. Dick
Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality. — Gary Paulsen
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa. — B.F. Skinner

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