But correct and right were two different things. As were facts and truth.

What I know and what I feel are two very different things.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Saying is one thing and doing is another

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

I tried to speak insipidly, yet everything I said seemed to take on a double meaning.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

Cualquier persona con sentido común y una mente aguda medirá la distancia entre dos cosas: lo que ha dicho y lo que ha hecho. BEOWULF, POEMA ÉPICO 15 FEBRERO

"When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I'm trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It's a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e.g. "I was attacked by a bear!" to "Goddamn bear tried to kill me!" to "That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup upon my person!" and so on."

"There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better.

The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning.

Truth and reality split apart.