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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
principles fundamentals causes
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles. Alan Lightman
principles ease ruling
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle. Jane Austen
principles problem dedicated
The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem. Clay Shirky
principles life-is this-life
The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater. D. H. Lawrence
principles conviction vulture
Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead. David Lloyd George
principles
A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles. Andy Stanley
principles physics mathematics
I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics. Rene Descartes
principles judgmental violation
To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle. Thomas Sowell
principles consequence
My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them. Thomas Jefferson
wonderful so-sad
Everything is so sad and so wonderful. Cloris Leachman
wonder humans human-beings
For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing. Aristotle
wonder sense-of-wonder universe
My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe. Albert Einstein
wonderful improvising knows
No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. Christopher Walken
wonder dare
And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare? T. S. Eliot
wonder deficit right-now
We have a deficit of wonder right now. Tom Waits
wonder
Wisdom belongs in wonder. Socrates
wonder
Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.
wonder sandman yeah
I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.