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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."
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"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
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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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"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon."
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"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
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"I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop."
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"I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me."
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"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation."
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"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."
Thought
"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've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
Poetry
"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."
Art
"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."
Literature
"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
"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
Time
"I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem."
Work
"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
"A chronicle is very different from history proper."
History
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