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Michael Crichton quote: "All heart surgeons are bastards, and Conway is no exception."
All heart surgeons are bastards, and Conway is no exception. Michael Crichton
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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 and learn something about it. P. J. O'Rourke
Michael Connelly quote: "There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there."
There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there. Michael Connelly
Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists, Presbyterians, tribe, army, family, some encircling outside thing was needed. Pride, she thought. Pride alone made them think that they needed only themselves, could shape life that way, like Adam and Eve, like gods from nowhere beholden to nothing except their own creations. She should have warned them, but her devotion cautioned against impertinence. As long as Sir... Toni Morrison
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions. Thomas Jefferson
The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light. Douglas Adams
You know about innards? The trick they play on tramps in the country? They stuff an old wallet with putrid chicken innards. Well, take it from me, a man is just like that, except that he's fatter and hungrier and can move around, and inside there's a dream. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those that stood still said he went backward and should be killed. And the poor people helped stone him, and were fools. We were all fools, except those who were fat and did no work. The fools were called wise, and the wise were stoned. Men who worked did not get enough to eat, and the men who did... Jack London
We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists. Simone Weil
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. Ayn Rand
Stephen King quote: "We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but..."
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long. Stephen King
Edmund White quote: "The most important things in our intimate lives can't be..."
The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books. Edmund White
So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time? Margaret Mitchell
Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer me I can't find otherwise except humiliation? Which I no longer need. Margaret Atwood

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