I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.
Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.
In fact, I'm softer than I've ever been, including that unfortunate semester in high school when I simultaneously discovered Krispy Kreme and pot.
In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language, and to which every language necessarily conforms.
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.
Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.
UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You say, why is that so? Well, because we know what the hell we're looking at!
Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
I was a Stalinist in the '30s. I had come from a Russian revolutionary family who simply were elated by the fact that the Czar was overthrown by this group known as the Bolsheviks. My family identified with anybody who overthrew the Czar. So they identified themselves intuitively with Bolshevism.
The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!
No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.
How can arguments based on fact prevail in a nation where so many people know so little?
my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.
There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!
The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!
Steve Bannon has quoted as lamenting the fact that he predicts a "Fox News" that will be more centrist in the future. He came after our boss Rupert Murdoch in some unflattering terms.
But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
Facts can obscure the truth.
The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.
Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.
Facts do not give advice.
The idealist regards facts as provisional.
Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.
