These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe's world.
Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
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Unknown
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Tacitus
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.
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John H. Alexander
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