Hovenkamp Article Quotes & Sayings

My title "The Fabrication of Facts," has the virtue not only of indicating pretty clearly what I am going to discuss but also of irritating those fundamentalists who know very well that facts are found not madder, that facts constitute the one and only real world, and that knowledge consists of believing the facts. These articles of faith so firmly possess most of us, they so bind and blind us, that "fabrication of fact" has a paradoxical sound. "Fabrication" has become a synonym for "falsehood" or "fiction" as contrasted with "truth" or "fact." Of course, we must distinguish falsehood and fiction from truth and fact; but we cannot, I am sure, do it on ground that fiction is fabricated and fact found. - 91 — Nelson Goodman

The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter. — Louisa May Alcott

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened. — Walter Cronkite

PINEAPPLE SALSA: 1 cup fresh pineapple, diced (if fresh is unavailable, use canned pineapple and drain juice) 3 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped ¼ large red onion, diced fine ½ teaspoon black pepper 1 fresh lime COMBINE SALSA INGREDIENTS in a bowl, and refrigerate at least 1 — Rick Warren

No one will live forever. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I say, Show me the way.
You say, Put your head
under your feet.
That way you rise through the stars
and see a hundred different ways
to be with me. — Rumi

Panic bloomed in my chest. Before I could scramble off his lap, he reached up and gently stroked my hair. I froze, hands braced on his chest for stability, ready to flee. "I've been waiting for that since the moment I saw you," he said in a deep and husky voice. He sounded like a midnight radio DJ. Hearing his perfect voice ignited my temper. Now, he could talk? I scowled at him. The man had the audacity to laugh then scoop me up in his arms. The — Melissa Haag

Only a heart that knows how to love can ever be broken. — Gisclerc Morisset

To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith. — Charles Spurgeon

At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism. — Tea Obreht

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. — Marilyn Monroe

He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words. — Scott Heim