Facts – Quotes

With no notice to

With no notice to the American people…this country entered the war…Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it. Garet Garrett

I am interested in the political economy of institutional power relationships in transition. The question is one of reconstructive communities as a cultural, as well as a political, fact: how geographic communities are structured to move in the direction of the next vision, along with the question of how a larger system – given the … Read more

In the century that

In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone suddenly turned into a saviour who wanted either to annihilate the obsolete world order or to establish a utopia. Naturally, there were writers among those who went mad. The fact that … Read more

There are numerous layers

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer. Gao Xingjian

To subvert is not

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature. Gao Xingjian

My schedulers keep getting

My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can’t fit hikes in my schedule. Gale Norton

In my memoir, I

In my memoir, I admit that I’ve been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when ‘Passages’ was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out. Gail Sheehy

According to the prevailing

According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being… In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better. Gail … Read more

Fact: Girls who are

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe. Gail Parent

With a resigned shrug,

With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint. She stayed resolutely fainted, despite the liberal application of smelling salts, which made her eyes water most tremendously, a cramp in the back of one knee, and the fact that her new ball gown was getting most awfully wrinkled. Gail Carriger