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In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs,… — Jean Dubuffet
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need… — Albert Camus
Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses. — Francis Parkman
Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes… — Hunter S. Thompson
Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded… — Hunter S. Thompson
I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin. — Don Van Vliet
No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not exist… — Mavis Gallant
So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on… — Rafer Johnson
Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it. — Anne Enright
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks. — Countee Cullen
See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and observation of the… — Matthew Henry
God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell. — P.J. O'Rourke
In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day… — Carlo Collodi
Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior. — C.S. Lewis
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. — C.S. Lewis
Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned? — C.S. Lewis
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation… — Florence Nightingale
You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians. — P.J. O'Rourke
No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except… — Ron Paul
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just… — Judith Martin

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