Factuality Quotes

#1. Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's great, because it frees photography from factuality, the same way photography freed painting from factuality in the mid-nineteenth century.

Vik Muniz

#2. Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we're talking now, not factuality but possibility.

Hal Duncan

#3. Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.

Hannah Arendt

#4. A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

Clifford Geertz

#5. I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

E.L. Doctorow

#6. Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.

Yann Martel

#7. I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

Yann Martel

#8. There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Helen Hunt Jackson

#9. Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

Kate Atkinson

#10. After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them

Saddam Hussein

#11. Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

Christine Keeler

#12. While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

John Green

#13. Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose ... mine!

Benito Mussolini

#14. A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. Evan ran his finger across the faded leather spines. He laughed at how silly some of the names were: Paint Your Roses Red, Edelweiss and Me, World of Mushrooms and Fungi, The Toadstool Diaries, Daffodils Unseen and Exotic Plants Unleashed, to name but a few.

H.B. Bolton

#16. I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot.

Tove Ditlevsen

#17. The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story?

Patrick Rothfuss

#18. My peopole like to sing," he informed her easily. "They like it best when they're shitfaced.

Kristen Ashley

#19. The less explaining you do the less people speculate.

M. V. Heberden

#20. Pressure only makes you sick. You won't get anything positive out of it.

Alek Wek

#21. Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam and the profit lived.

Mark Durie