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Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather… — Lewis Carroll
I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women. — Anne Lamott
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's… — J D Salinger
Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me! — Michael Crichton
Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams — Wystan Hugh Auden
[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation. — Orhan Pamuk
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but… — Mark Twain
You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can't be anywhere except together — Francesca Lia Block
And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was… — Isaac Asimov
I never change, except in my affections. — Oscar Wilde
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm. — C.S. Lewis
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes… — Mark Twain
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of… — Tom Stoppard
I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within. — Louisa May Alcott
Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him.… — Ayn Rand
Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage. — Joe Hill
I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth.… — R. Buckminster Fuller
All children, except one, grow up. — James M. Barrie
There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the… — James M. Barrie
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of… — Dylan Thomas
The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.… — Albert Einstein
He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers… — Beverly Cleary

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