“It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed. Very odd, isn't it.” IfsThinkingWantIdeasFactsWould BeNaturalStrongerRefuseTalesOddUpsetRejectsIndifferentVagueAnnoyedResentUneasinessOdd ThingsIndignantTrue Fact Author:Josephine Tey
“It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.” RealFactsRealityTheoryEssentialsYesterdayReal LifeComplexityOutlinesMarxistTrue Fact Book:Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution Source: Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution
“Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.” FactsStrangeHarderPerceiveFollyTrue FactStrange But True Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in) Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)