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Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

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I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children. ↗

— Tracy K. Smith

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I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down. ↗

— Gene Fowler

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One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts. ↗

— Dennis Franz

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I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past. ↗

— James G. Frazer

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I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it. ↗

— Dawn French

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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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Reality is an acquired taste. ↗

— Robert Fritz

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People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

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