All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well jus...
Jeremy Northam
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren`t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
Alaida Lares
The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
Allen Hirsch
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
Lawrence Durrell
In merest prudence men should teach. That science ranks as monstrous things, Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings - E`en Angel`s wings! - are fictions.
Al Hahn
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use ...
Ajay Mangal
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interi...
Richard Schickel