Fact Quite Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the…
— H. L. Mencken
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Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal;…
— Bent Larsen
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I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up,…
— Quentin Blake
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There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.
— Heather King
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She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she…
— Terry Pratchett
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The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact…
— Christopher Alexander
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Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work…
— Alex Steffen
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
— John Galsworthy
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Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing…
— Gail Carriger
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There’s a lot I don’t tell my father when he calls asking after Amy. He wouldn’t understand that she has no interest in getting married…
— David Sedaris
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I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite…
— Roald Dahl
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In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of evil, basically, and convinced himself…
— Rick Atkinson
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Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But the Beautiful Game…
— Craig Brown
Who Wrote These Fact Quite Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Fact Quite Quotes as follows: