Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Answers 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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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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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

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

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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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

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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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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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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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

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

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