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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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"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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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
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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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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"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 do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."
Hope
"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
"A chronicle is very different from history proper."
History
"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."
Thought
"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
"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
"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."
Literature
"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
Literature
"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
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