"Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen."
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"And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate."
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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
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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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"Every novel is a debtor to Homer."
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"Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins."
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"Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high."
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"Life is a means of extracting fiction."
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"I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies."
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"The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything."
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"Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable."
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"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."
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"When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction."
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"Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different."
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"Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery."
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"Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously."
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"He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to."
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"Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does."
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"In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction."
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"Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction."
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