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"Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist."
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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."

"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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"I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me."

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

"I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation."
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