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fiction honest aim
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov
fiction life love whether
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life. Abraham Verghese
fiction realizing social
What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. Doris Lessing
fiction ground los reality
What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles. Michael Connelly
fiction documentaries directors
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life. Alfred Hitchcock
fiction movement crafts
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. Raymond Carver
fiction kind film
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films. Ray Bradbury
fiction imagine terrible
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions. Siri Hustvedt
fiction life-is stranger
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. Neil Gaiman
imagined love music rest
If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist. George Benson
periods
There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time. Alice Cooper
period
We know it is a period that we have to rebuild. Mahela Jayawardene
periods form transportation
I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation. Travis Barker
period position stayed
That's probably the one position that has stayed the same the most over that period of time. David Cutcliffe
period short
They can be done in a short period of time, David Greenberg
periods
Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken! Pat Robertson
period prolonged realistic
Vendors are going to have to be more realistic about prices. We are going to see a prolonged period of underperformance. Richard Donnell
period president support
We would like very much to support President Abbas at this period of time. This is what we are going to do today. Javier Solana
science mathematical-logic ideas
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. Bertrand Russell
science supposing-that forever
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new. Calvin Coolidge
science would-be mould
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty. Charles Darwin
science writer
The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary. Hanya Yanagihara
science deities evolution
Midway from Nothing to the Deity! Edward Young
science lines way
A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity. Aristotle
science two fire
For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size. Aristotle
science
Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment. Seth MacFarlane
science men doe
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. Stephen Jay Gould