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"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions."
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"Attitudes are more important than facts."
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"The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that."
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"In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia."
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"I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids."
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"I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight."
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"My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts."
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"I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access."
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"I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium."
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"There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago."
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"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
Time
"Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?"
Work
"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
"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
Influence
"History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without."
History
"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."
History
"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
Poems
"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
"Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree."
Literature
"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."
Literature
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