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"I'm iron. I lasted through ten years of war, and now I can last through this. It's true, it's not good for the nerves."

"He tapped into something...and he was the conduit...and it makes me think of this: where does art come from; where does a true genius come from?"

"It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts."

"Sick of hearing this shit about me not talking... not true... good days, bad days... but I still am a talkin motherfucker!"

"There's no one thing that's true. It's all true."

"I was honestly very nervous of Constance Wheatcroft. And I wasn't the only one. Her entire family was afraid of her. Dogs were afraid of her. Bindweed in the hedge would wither as she passed; birds wo…"

"I was interested in truth from the point of view of salvation just as much as in truth from the point of view of scientific certainty. It appeared to me that there were two paths to truth, and I decid…"

"Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress towar…"

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary pleasure in provi…"

"Stars in the sky / and dreams are few / the ones who come true"

"I inherited honesty and self-discipline from my father; from my mother, I inherited faith in goodness and deep kindness as did my three brothers and sisters."

"Are the eyes an open door to the world, as poets say? Well, honestly, not really. The fact is, we see the world through a pair of tiny peepholes, the pupils of our eyes. Our brain functions as a highl…"

"1987 audio interview by Don Swaim of CBS Radio, 31 min 2 s, RealAudio"

"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of an escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times — how to escape."

"So he believes. The truth may be more...complex."

"The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers... They are denying the reality of a force that — unless we change the way we l…"

"I think if I had met him without knowing who he was, I should not have guessed that he was a great man; he struck me as too opinionated and narrowly orthodox. His strength comes, I imagine, from his h…"

"Common sense suggests that some factors in a process are more important than others — and analysis supports this. In reality, only 20 percent of activities. In reality, only 20 percent of activities m…"

"The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it."

"I am here tonight under the most tragic circumstances, with the possibilities of grave and difficult operations in Belfast and in Ulster within almost a few days...I am here to tell you solemnly and h…"