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What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage? — Euripides
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. — Jacques Barzun
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries. — Jacques Barzun
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady. — O. Henry
I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each… — John Steinbeck
The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think… — John Steinbeck
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor within.… — Anna Quindlen
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the… — William S. Burroughs
What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news,… — Harrison Ford
It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have… — Mary McCarthy
One cannot rest except after steady practice. — George Ade
Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races. — Phyllis McGinley
I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen. — Jerry Falwell
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on… — Remy de Gourmont
A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself. — Jose Marti
It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the… — Martin Amis
I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from… — Mary Chapin Carpenter
The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now… — Florence King
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in… — Douglas Coupland
What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much? — Douglas Coupland

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