"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity."

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"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

Elia Kazan, American Director

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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

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"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."

Alberto Giacometti, Swiss Sculptor

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"I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be."

Marion Jones, American Athlete

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"I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

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