Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Literature 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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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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

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

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

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This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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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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Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

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

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

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The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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