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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
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"Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything."
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"I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious."
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"We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody."
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"The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one."
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"On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place."
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"I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean."
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"The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real."
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"On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place."
Fact

"One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way."
Will

"I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language."
Language

"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
Reading

"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."
Want

"Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent."
Living

"Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time."
Time

"We simply have not kept in touch with poetry."
Poetry

"That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were."
Poetry

"I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door."
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