"The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be."

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"The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be."

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

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Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"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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David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

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"The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates."

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"She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it."

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"There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture cannot do but that are urgent now: one is that by creating a character in a work of fiction you can allow a reader to leap over the wall of self and to allow him to imagine himself not only somewhere else but someone else in a way that television and movies, in a way that no other form can do. I think people are essentially lonely and alone and frightened of being alone."

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"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art."

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

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"The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir."

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"A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane."

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"The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits."

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"I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things."

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