Carl Sagan Quotes, Science Quotes, Fiction Quotes

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

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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

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

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Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

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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

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Answers Quotes

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

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Fiction Quotes , World Quotes

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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

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The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Requirements Quotes

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Writing 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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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Strong Quotes , Fiction 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

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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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

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

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