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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

"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."

"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed."
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"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."

"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates."

"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."

"I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place."

"Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book."

"However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition."
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