One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.
Too much truth is uncouth.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.
Facts are stubborn things.
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