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The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no… — Albert Camus
You've always lived here, right?" Sarah asked. "Except for the years I went to college." "Didn't you ever want to move away? To experience something… — Nicholas Sparks
Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that… — Chris Bradford
I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . . — Fannie Flagg
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very… — Aldous Huxley
It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically,… — Louise GluÌˆck
Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would… — Cecelia Ahern
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you… — Ernest Hemingway
When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it. — Twyla Tharp
Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful, except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have… — Miranda July
So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. "I'm confessing that… — David Levithan
There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it inâ€”that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. "Dad," I said.… — Jaclyn Moriarty
After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he… — Diana Wynne Jones
why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by… — Charles Bukowski
It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of… — James A. Baldwin
He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness. — Thomas Harris
He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all. — Pat Conroy
The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today. — Shane Claiborne

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