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"It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

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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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"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."

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