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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."

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"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."

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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

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"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

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"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."

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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

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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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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

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