# Quote — William Faulkner, The Town

> Maybe I was completely wrong that morning when I said how women are only interested in facts because maybe men are just interested in facts too and the only difference is, women dont care whether they are facts or not just so they fit, and men dont care whether they fit or not just so they are facts.

- Author: [William Faulkner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner.md)
- Book: [The Town](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/the-town.md)
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## More from this book

> ... innocence is innocent not because it rejects but because it accepts; is innocent not because it is impervious and invulnerable to everything, but because it is capable of accepting anything and still remaining innocent; innocent because it foreknows all and therefore doesn't have to fear or be afraid.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/the-town/innocence-is-innocent.md)

> "You don't know very much about women, do you?" she said. "Women aren't interested in poets' dreams. They are interested in facts. It doesn't even matter whether the facts are true or not, as long as they match the other facts without leaving a rough seam."

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> The poets are wrong of course. ... But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

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