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"The facts are always less than what really happened."
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
"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."
"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."
"A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection."
"In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part."
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"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."
"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."
"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter."
"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."
"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."
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