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)

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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