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James T. Farrell quote: "All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no..."
All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse. James T. Farrell
Stephenie Meyer quote: "Bella, it's not my fault if you are exceptionally unobservant."
Bella, it's not my fault if you are exceptionally unobservant. Stephenie Meyer
There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain. Shaded with trees and leaves like a piggy bank filled with memories. You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur...the pure murmuring of life. Juan Rulfo
Claude Debussy quote: "Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the..."
Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind... Claude Debussy
What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of the Capitol?' Finnick asks. No,' I say. No,' Finnick repeats. 'Because whatever happened in the past is in the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance.' He eyes Peeta for a moment. 'Except maybe Peeta. Suzanne Collins
If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest -- like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably -- was out of their hands, beyond. David Guterson
A philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything other except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery. Bertrand Russell
It's just me and James walking and walking except he's on my back and his eyes are looking past the people who are looking past us for the coyote of our soul and the wolverine of our heart and the crazy crazy man that touches every Indian who spends too much time alone. Sherman Alexie
If You Should Go. Love, leave me like the light, The gently passing day; We would not know, but for the night, When it has slipped away. Go quietly; a dream, When done, should leave no trace. That it has lived, except a gleam Across the dreamer's face. Countee Cullen
William Blake quote: "A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that..."
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. William Blake
Salman Rushdie quote: "Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the..."
Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was? Salman Rushdie
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e. g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path. Nick Hornby
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. Lois McMaster Bujold
Still waking up in the mornings with shaking hands And I'm trying to find a girl who understands me But except in dreams you're never really free Warren Zevon
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests. Leo Tolstoy

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