#facts

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. ↗

— Paul de Man

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In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts. ↗

— John McGahern

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Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. ↗

— Rick Moody

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To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America. ↗

— Peter Munk

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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. ↗

— George Orwell

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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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