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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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"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
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"To some lawyers, all facts are created equal."
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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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"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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"There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy."
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"Facts do not speak."
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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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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
Influence
"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
Time
"A chronicle is very different from history proper."
History
"For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again."
Business
"It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page."
Art
"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
Travel
"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened."
Bible
"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
Technology
"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
Poetry
"The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case."
Fact
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