Sack Quotes (1)
A fact is like a sack which won’t stand up if it’s empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.
Character, The Father, in play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), Act 1, by Luigi Pirandello. Collected in John Gassner, Burns Mantle, A Treasury of the Theatre (1935), Vol. 2, 507.
See also: | Cause (49) | Empty (2) | Exist (4) | Fact (139) | Reason (69) | Sentiment (2) | Stand (3)
