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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional… — Thornton Wilder
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. — Tennessee Williams
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. — Robert Anton Wilson
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. — Woodrow Wilson
Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be. — Robert Winston
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. — George Edward Woodberry
I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates. — Bob Woodward
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. — Virginia Woolf
Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably… — Rob Zombie
Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games. — Viswanathan Anand
Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy… — Felix Dennis
I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went… — Frans de Waal
I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family. — Nick Frost
Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen. — Anurag Kashyap
Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in… — Anurag Kashyap
Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information. — Douglas Rushkoff
True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. — William Goldman
He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring… — George Orwell
I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important… — Ayn Rand
She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had… — Ayn Rand
Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein,… — Bill Bryson
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night,… — Jack Kerouac
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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