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"There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me."
"All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified."
"As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now."
"A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams."
"That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!"
"The whole world has risen in Christ... If God is 'all in all,' then everything is in fact paradise, because it is filled with the glory and presence of God, and nothing is any more separated from God."
"Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest."
"I love to hate [Wall Street] it, and I like it. I love the fact that I hate it and like it at the same time. Plus, Gordon Gekko is now [Donald] Trump, isn't he?"
"It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid."
"But facts are facts and flinch not."
"The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry."
"I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work."
"We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?"
"The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit."
"In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it."
"In fact, I'm softer than I've ever been, including that unfortunate semester in high school when I simultaneously discovered Krispy Kreme and pot."
"Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking."
"Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there."
"I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants."
"I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction."
