Fiction

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.

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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction there's only narrative.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but this is because fiction is obliged to stick to probability truth is not.

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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

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Fiction is a form of writing which reveals truths that reality obscures.

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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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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isnt.

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But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric -- and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

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Victory is a political fiction.

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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

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It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

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Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

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Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

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No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

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The difference between fiction and reality Fiction has to make sense.

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Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, And can only please by its resemblance.

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ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination ...

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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

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Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

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