Quotes 81 till 100 of 152.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
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Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.
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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
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One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
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Personalization is everywhere. We are constantly asked, directly or indirectly, to create Our Own Whatever - containing and limited to our 'favorite sources of information.' Republicans do that; Democrats do it; environmentalists do it; terrorists do it; science fiction enthusiasts do it. That's a real problem, I think.
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
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Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
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Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
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Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
(2010)
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