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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

~Anne Carson

Topics: Ability Both Construct Convincing Emotional Emotional Life Facts Feels Life Like Physical Record Sensual Surface Think

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Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

~Anne Fortier

Topics: Age Architecture Art Been Childhood Ever Everything Facts Figures Forth History Interested Just Literature Myth Our Past Perception Shape Since

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I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: Author Banal Believe Differently Even Facts Know Life Most Read Really

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I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research often - if I need names, details, facts that enhance the project.

~Anne Waldman

Topics: Details Dreams Engage Enhance Ethos Facts Follow Get Idea Names Need Notes Often Over Project Research Take Travels Up Worked

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What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Answer Diversity Endless Facts Great Life Meant Must Philosophy Problems Reason Satisfactory Satisfy Science Show Underlying Unity

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When confronted with the facts of foreign atrocities, the experience is often consigned to the realm of the unimaginable. Fiction makes the unimaginable imaginable.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Atrocities Confronted Experience Facts Fiction Foreign Imaginable Makes Often Realm Unimaginable

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We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

~Antoine Lavoisier

Topics: Cannot Deceive Every Experiment Facts Instance Must Natural Nature Never Nothing Observation Ought Our Presented Reasoning Road Search Submit Test Trust Truth Us

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Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

~Arnold H. Glasow

Topics: Bath Facts Fish Giving Life Like Teenager Telling

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The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

~Arnold H. Glasow

Topics: Facts Fewer Opinion Stronger

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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Facts Just Least Observed Proportion Sense Should Some Suppressed Them Treating

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