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Obviously the
facts
are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of
facts
but memories of your imaginings of the
facts
.
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Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in
fact
, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.
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It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the
facts
in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the
facts
with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
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The
fact
remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
Frédéric Bastiat
Philip Roth
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Born:
March 19, 1933
Died:
May 22, 2018
(aged 85)
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