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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."

"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."

"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."

"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."

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

"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."

"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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