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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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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."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"...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."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"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."

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"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."

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"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."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"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."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"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."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"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."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"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."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"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."

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