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"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."
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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 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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"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."
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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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"We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil."
God
"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."
People
"In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent."
Trust
"Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most."
History
"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation."
God
"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."
Growth
"When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write."
Reading
"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."
Man
"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."
Dying
"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."
Democracy
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