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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."
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"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
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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."
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"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon."
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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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"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
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"I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop."
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"I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me."
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"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
Man
"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."
Evil
"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."
Education
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
Law
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
Fear
"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."
Faith
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
Science
"To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all."
God
"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life."
Life
"Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle."
Animals
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