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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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"I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too."
"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
"I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language."
"What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up."
"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."
"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."
"The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with."
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