"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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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

Nigella Lawson, British Journalist

Fact, Respect

"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Fact, Parents, Wishing, Wrong

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Fact, Wishes

"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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Fact, Facts

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Fact, Opinion

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Fact, Facts, Ignorance, Theory

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Fact, Vice

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

George Eliot, British Author

Fact, Giving, Man, Nothing

"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Fact, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat."

Ray Milland, American Actor

Fact, Film

Explore more quotes by Norman Mailer

"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."

Evil

"God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so."

God

"In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell."

Violence

"Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it."

Dance

"Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts."

Cultural

"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

"I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind."

Ability

"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."

Work

"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

"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube."

Creativity