Fiction Quotes
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life
Simone Weil
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Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.
Margaret Culkin Banning
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Jim Rohn
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Jim Rohn
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The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
Herman Wouk
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
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‘the doer’ is merely a fiction added to the deed – the deed is everything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron
Subject: Fiction Quotes :: Truth QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
John Hersey
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West
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The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and...
Leon Trotsky
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The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and ...
Leon Trotsky
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject: Fiction QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn`t.
Mark Twain
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn`t.
Mark Twain
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King
Subject: Fiction QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what`s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
William Faulkner
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I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter for other people, or a novel writer. I write a lot, and I read a lot. I like reading fiction. Right now, my favorite author is p...
Cassie Steele
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People shout at me "Hey, loved that The Matrix (1999), man!" Yeah - me too. I was actually on a plane last year and this guy sat down next to me. Finally he said something to me, and we started talking about _Pulp Fiction (1994)_. He couldn`t remember the...
Samuel Jackson
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[talking about his comeback and the comparison with John Travolta`s career turn in Pulp Fiction]:"If I get ten percent of John Travolta`s bounce, I will be thrilled."
Robert Forster
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[About his new film Stranger Than Fiction (2006)] "I`m really proud of it, and I`ve only said that about three times during my career."
Dustin Hoffman
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I put aside an hour every day to go over that monologue again and again for months, and every time I got to the end of it, I would crack up. - On Pulp Fiction (1994).
Christopher Walken
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On violence in the media: "We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction (1994), it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it`s now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when peo...
Natalie Portman
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Now what Tarantino will say to that is, `Don`t you understand? This is a black comedy. We`re holding this up to ridicule.` There`s no worse thing you can accuse a cool person of being than not getting a joke. - On Pulp Fiction (1994)
Charlton Heston
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On being typcast after Star Trek: "I`ve been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my Star Trek character and I`ve been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex."
Marina Sirtis
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubt on their existence. Or lack thereof.
Neil Gaiman
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what`s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick
