"I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person."
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"The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense."
"...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story."
"I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them."
"The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked."
"These days, DJ's are the ones who are bringing fresh sounds to the music world. In fact, they are creating a new spatial music. They are the space transformers of the universe."
"The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!"
"My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting."
"There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact."
"The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself."
"So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe."
"No facts to me are sacred; none are profane."
"I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast."
"For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss."
"The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life."
"Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact."
"A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world."
"Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily."
"Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none."
"The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact."