"It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.“


-Gore Vidal

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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

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