2,590 Quotes About Facts

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

I have no problem twisting the facts if it's the only way I can be true to the moment.

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.