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• There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.

  T.C. Boyle

  Kindness, Would Be, May

  T.C. Boyle (1996). “The Tortilla Curtain”, p.147, Penguin

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• Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, People

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with one or two of those who, in all measures affecting masses of people, must be acute sufferers for the good of many. The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Men, Two, People

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1409, BookCaps Study Guides

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• perserverence w/o exception

  Andy Andrews

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• The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! for everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words. one morning (and it will be soon), when everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of universal deafness and incomprehension will have arrived.

  Milan Kundera

  Morning, Age, Unseen

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• As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government—for dogs.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dog, Government, Democracy

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.593, University of Illinois Press

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• You want to live, right? (Syn) Absolutely. (Kiara) Then we’re where you are, bathroom breaks being the only exception – unless you’re in public, and then we get to risk additional arrest records. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Risk, Records, Want

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, p.116, Macmillan

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• Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.

  Daniel Handler

  Rooms, Pretending, Knocking

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• We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but I had also known what he meant. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them. He meant wanting. He meant living.

  Joan Didion

  Fun, Done, Should

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• The other exception to the rule regards dealings with masochists. A masochist derives pleasure from being hurt; so denying the masochist his pleasure through-pain hurts him just as much as actual physical pain hurts the non masochist. The story of the truly cruel sadist illustrates this point: The masochist says to the sadist, "beat me." To which the merciless sadist replies, "NO!" If a person wants to be hurt and enjoys suffering, then there is no reason not to indulge him in his wont.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Hurt, Pain, Exception To The Rule

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• Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception – especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they’re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Strong, Mean, Home

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.57, A&C Black

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• A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

  Jodi Picoult

  Tolerance, Enough, Live And Let Live

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• Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

  Carl Sagan

  Nature, Mass Extinction, Exception To The Rule

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.76, Penguin

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• The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

  Bell Hooks

  Acceptance, Bad Ass, Feminist

  bell hooks (2014). “Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism”, p.157, Routledge

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• Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you.

  Ayn Rand

  Love You, Love Is, Men

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.640, Penguin

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• I’ve learned that you can’t predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card.

  Taylor Swift

  Love Is, Organization, Ideas

  "The Single Girl's Guide To Winning At Life By Taylor Swift" by Ariel Nagi, www.seventeen.com. February 14, 2015.

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• The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Simple, Enjoy, Simple Happiness

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.144, Shambhala Publications

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• Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Names, Solitude

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.373, Wordsworth Editions

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• To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

  Vera Nazarian

  Idiot, Ready

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• Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.

  Ann Brashares

  Mother, World, Honestly

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.12, Penguin

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• We are not taught "love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours " or "love thy neighbor unless they don't make money as you do" or "love thy neighbor unless they don't share your belies." We are taught "love thy neighbor". No exceptions. We are all in this together - every single one of us. And the only way we are going to survive as a society is through compassion. A Great Community does not mean we all think the same things or do the same things. It simply means we are willing to work together and are willing to love despite our differences.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Thinking, Compassion

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• You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Silence, Noise, Golden

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• Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might seem to him. Note here for the record that he is not someone with a special fixation on young girls. Until now, all the women in his life have been more or less his own age. Pilar therefore does not represent an embodiment of some ideal female type for him--she is merely herself, a small piece of luck he stumbled across one afternoon in a public park, an exception to every rule.

  Paul Auster

  Girl, Luck, Age

  Paul Auster (2016). “Collected Novels Volume Four”, p.400, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Grief, Past, Natural Talent

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