O. Henry Quotes, Men Quotes, Fiction Quotes

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the "Agamemnon."

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Fiction Quotes

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

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I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Facts Quotes

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

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Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Past Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Men Quotes , Fiction Quotes

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.

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Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Truth Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Burning Quotes

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

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I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Preference Quotes

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Differences Quotes , Fiction Quotes

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Stranger Quotes

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Literature Quotes

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

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