"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

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"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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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."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

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"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."

Alberto Giacometti, Swiss Sculptor

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"I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be."

Marion Jones, American Athlete

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"I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

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"The facts are on our side."

Karen Hughes, American Politician

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"I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid."

Katey Sagal, American Athlete

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"In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think."

Neil Innes, British Writer

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"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."

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"It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions."

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"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind."

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"The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you."

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"There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce."

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"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses."

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"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."

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