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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named… — Wally Lamb
I jest, of course; premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone… — Julie Burchill
We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by… — Baruch Spinoza
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought… — George Orwell
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. — Antonin Artaud
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances. — John Steinbeck
There is no method except yourself. — Harold Bloom
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts. — Andre Gide
If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too… — John Barth
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time.… — Ernest Hemingway
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed… — Bertrand Russell
Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie -… — Raquel Cepeda
Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the… — Linus Pauling
I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun... except hot dogs. — Gwyneth Paltrow
James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me… — Anne McCaffrey
I heard it's nothin new except for someone new but how you s'posed to find the one when anyone'll come with you? — Drake
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace… — George Orwell
When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement… — George Orwell

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