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Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except… — C.S. Lewis
Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are Real you don't mind being… — Margery Williams
I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what… — Katharine Hepburn
Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except… — John Dufresne
won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman… — Lucille Clifton
Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most… — Sue Grafton
The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact,… — Augusten Burroughs
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses… — P.J. O'Rourke
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines… — Ayn Rand
We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts… — John Hodgman
Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether that be a Muslim (Bosniak),… — Josip Broz Tito
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though… — Ralph Ellison
I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is. — John Green
Your brother kills you." Fett hopped tpo his feet as lightly as any unarmoured jedi apprentice, the n added," Some things are worsse thean death.… — Troy Denning
You wouldn't match Melanie and me up, and if we hadn't gotten stuck together as lab partners in junior high science, I doubt if we'd… — Deb Caletti
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. — William Blake
Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you. Sometimes you… — Ellen Hopkins
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that… — George Bernard Shaw
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy… — May Sarton
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't… — Kim Stanley Robinson
There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot. — Wendell Berry
I can imagine anything except having no imagination. — Michael Chabon
That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else. — Robert Cormier

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