“[I]n science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.”

— Mary McCarthy

"The Fact in Fiction", p. 266. First published in Partisan Review (Summer 1960)
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

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