#except

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. ↗

— Henry Miller

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I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

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I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful. ↗

— Eddie Murphy

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There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule. ↗

— Charles Osgood

#exception #exceptions #likes #rule

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses. ↗

— Francis Parkman

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Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#failing #greatest #her #man #sin

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches. ↗

— Hesketh Pearson

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No battle is worth fighting except the last one. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#except #fighting #last #worth

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. ↗

— Philip Roth

#aged #dying #everything #exactly #except

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty. ↗

— Keri Russell

#being #being pretty #except #going #pretty