Bodhidharma Quotes, Real 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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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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

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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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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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There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Deeds 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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

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The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

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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

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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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

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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The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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

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I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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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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