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"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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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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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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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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"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."
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"The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious."
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"The hard fact is that not everyone does get published."
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"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
Fact
"I think really good books can be read by anybody."
Books
"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it."
Day
"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
Conversation
"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."
Kids
"I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth."
Experience
"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."
Books
"I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."
Idea
"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."
Kids
"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
Books
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