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Alan Moore quote: "Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me?..."
Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me? Alan Moore
...the rule among the human race? a rule that naturally admits of exceptions? is that the reputedly hard are the weak whom nobody wanted, and that the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that gentleness which the vulgar herd mistakes for weakness. Marcel Proust
Roberto Bolano quote: "Hard cocks, with glorious exceptions, were hardly ever literary."
Hard cocks, with glorious exceptions, were hardly ever literary. Roberto Bolano
To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm. Salman Rushdie
Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails. John Steinbeck
The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud. Georg C. Lichtenberg
There isn't any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep? There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects? What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time. Kurt Vonnegut
Demetri Martin quote: "A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how..."
A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how annoying he is. Demetri Martin
Seth Godin quote: "Group projects are the exception in school, but they should be..."
Group projects are the exception in school, but they should be the norm. Seth Godin
Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a great empty drum of flesh Flannery O'Connor
He shook his head. "Everyone fears me, except you, Latro. When a man is respected, no one wants to plant a dagger in his back. When he is feared, everyone thinks upon it, and tests the point. Gene Wolfe
Everyone knows how to love, because we are all born with that gift. Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority of us have to re-learn, to remember how to love, and everyone, without exception, needs o burn on the bonfire of past emotions, to relieve certain joys and griefs, certain ups and downs, until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter; because there is a connecting thread. Paulo Coelho
Imperio! Moody jerked his wand, and the spider rose onto two of its hind legs and went into what was unmistakably a tap dance. Everyone was laughing? everyone except Moody. The laughter died away almost instantly. J. K. Rowling
Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked. Franz Kafka
Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being H. G. Wells

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