Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 5 (p. 46, concerning the peers)
Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 53, “We Margarets Walk” (p. 502)
“Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation — except work for it.”
January 24
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.”
As quoted in "Broken Government: Where the right went wrong," CNN (2006-11-03).
“One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.”
Page 46.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
“Some mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
Cut It Out (2004)
Source: Wall and Piece
“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.”
Radio broadcast http://books.google.com/books?id=_YBkWL9XBfcC&q=%22We+do+not+covet+anything+from+any+nation+except+their+respect%22&pg=PA403#v=onepage to German occupied, Vichy, and Free France (21 October 1940)
The Second World War (1939–1945)
“I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.”
Source: The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952
“We're not allowed to do anything to nature anymore, except look at it. It's like porn with leaves.”
When Did Nature Get So Whiney? (12 September 2003)
interview by Gerardo Munck on February 24, 2003, published in Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics edited by Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder
