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"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon."

"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

"All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean."

"The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all."

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

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

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."
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"My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else."

"I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?"

"Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to."

"I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America."

"Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends."

"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."

"It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses."
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