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Sydney Harris
: The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
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J G Ballard :
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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Gabriel Well...life is stranger than fiction sometimes.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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The difference between fiction and reality Fiction has to make sense.
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The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.
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Aldous Huxley :
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The trouble with fiction... is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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W Somerset Maugham :
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For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
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Jean Baudrillard :
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Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.
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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
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