Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Math Quotes, Fiction Quotes

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

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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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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 unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.

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

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

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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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Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

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

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

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

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

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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

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