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I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without Men.' I also write essays about visual art.

Siri Hustvedt

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

1984

Question for your life: If Ted Kennedy made it to heaven, do you think he’s pleased with the fact that Jesus can turn water into wine?

$3.33

Tomorrow’s Pancake Friday, despite the fact that it’s Monday, and I don’t eat breakfast.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

All Things Considered

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

The Art of Fielding

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

On Aggression

I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden

Read "The Story of O." Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

How to Make an American Quilt

A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what.

Happy Valentine's Slay

The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.

How to Be a Woman

As a matter of fact, with all wit, humor, raillery, persiflage, he was the profoundest logician that ever appealed to the intellect of an American audience. . { }

Ingersoll: A Biographical Appreciation

These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.

I, Robot

In fact she herself once blamed me Kyprogeneia because I prayed this word: I want.

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

Just Kids

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men.

Ragtime

The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection

Rigning í nóvember

I would have killed myself years ago if it weren't for the fact that I’m pretty sure death is the only thing more terrible than life.

Sci-Fidelity

Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it.

Seasons of Darkness