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“In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.”

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Author:Norman MacCaig

“Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.”

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Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.”

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Book:The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.”

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Book:Conversations with Julian Barnes

Source: Conversations with Julian Barnes

“The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.”

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Author:Allen Ginsberg

“From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.”

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Author:Jose Saramago

“[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.”

“I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.”

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Author:Diane Sawyer