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The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. — Northrop Frye
Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties. — Edward Abbey
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother… — Edward Abbey
Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?) — Edward Abbey
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception. — Friedrich August von Hayek
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result… — Mercy Otis Warren
It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a… — George Orwell
I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a… — J.R.R. Tolkien
You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'… — Margaret Atwood
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere. — William Dean Howells
There's no bad publicity except an obituary. — Brendan Behan
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. — Brendan Behan
Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves — Chinua Achebe
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save… — Hannah Arendt
Boy, everyone is stupid except me. — Homer
For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there… — Pericles
Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I've felt it (shoulder soreness) since the first day I came, but more so now. Yesterday in the doubles I felt like I couldn't serve… — Marat Safin
You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure. — John F. Kennedy

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