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

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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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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 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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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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Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written 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, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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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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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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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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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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

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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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

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