#exception

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#fame #humanity #oblivion #rule

It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#adult #anything #authors #because #before

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. ↗

— Lorraine Hansberry

#exceptional #inevitably #lonely #make #makes

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories. ↗

— Joshua Foer

#remembering #visual #art

The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#broad #charter #communicated #conference #courage

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule? ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#exception #parts #rule #why #women

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#always #anger #became #because #brutal

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#exceptions #great #many #new #new york

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#always #exceptions #harbinger #new #old

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#angry #because #been #exceptionally #flying