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I was never really insane
except upon occasions
when my heart was
touched.
Edgar Allan Poe

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I’ve changed the course of music five or six times.
What have you done except fuck the president?
Miles Davis (to Nancy Reagan)

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I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown

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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 the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
Tom Stoppard (via kari-shma)

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This incredible aquatic pageant will be a kind of Dunkirk, except more successful, more cheerful
Boris Johnson on the flotilla sailing down the Thames for the Queen’s Jubilee. (via Londoners diary - evening standard - Friday, 18th may 2012)

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A person is
never happy except
at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France (via eloquentandhonest)

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The public is
wonderfully tolerant.
It forgives everything except
genius.
Oscar Wilde (via eloquentandhonest)

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Half of the modern drugs
could well be thrown
out of the window,
except that the
birds might
eat them.
Dr. Martin Henry Fischer (via eloquentandhonest)

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Cynics regarded everybody
as equally corrupt.

Idealists regarded everybody
as equally corrupt,
except themselves.

Robert Anton Wilson (via eloquentandhonest)
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