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Clarice Lispector Quote: 'Facts and particulars annoy me. ...'

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Profession: Writer
Nationality: Brazilian
Birthday: December 10, 1920

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Any email that contains the words 'important' or 'urgent' never are, and annoy me to the point of not replying out of principle.

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I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

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A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.

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There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

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I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

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The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

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From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look witheringly at them and snarl, 'What do you think?' I mean, how do you imagine anyone writes a quarter of a million words a year for publication?

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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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It used to annoy and frustrate me to have to come in and audition. I would say to my agents, 'Haven't they seen this film and this film and this film? They know what I look like... They must.' Until I directed an episode of 'Roswell.' And all of a sudden, I realized why that was such an important thing.

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Seek truth from facts.

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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

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Don't confuse facts with reality.

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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

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Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

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The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

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