Except Quotes
4383 quotes by 2818 authors
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Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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He didn't say anything. Didn't try any of the hugging bullshit, either, which was just as well. Instead, he placed a wooden case next to…
— J R Ward
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Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew…
— Barry Lyga
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Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go…
— Veronica Roth
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They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and pearls clatter to the stage… I’m in a dress of the exact design of my…
— Suzanne Collins
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Even the sky was grey. Grey and grey and greyer. The whole world grey, everywhere you look, everything grey except the eyes of the bride.…
— George R. R. Martin
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I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if…
— Jim Thompson
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You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be…
— Dr. Seuss
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As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People…
— Charles Bukowski
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The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.
— Martin Luther
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Tuatha De do not walk the human realm alone. Actually, they don't walk alone much anywhere. Only the occasional rogue Fae will do so." "Like…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
— Ernest Hemingway
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[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
— Margaret Mitchell
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I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.
— Sophie Kinsella
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That's the way it goes. Some things happen and some things don't. This one is obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down... I…
— Sophie Kinsella
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Nothing can make me feel better now, except cocaine.
— Dylan Moran
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He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.
— Douglas Adams
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Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what…
— Thomas J. Stanley
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