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fiction remember stranger
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Arthur C. Clarke
fiction honest aim
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov
fiction easy tales
How easy it is to tell tales! Denis Diderot
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 youth stranger
Youth is stranger than fiction. Rupert Brooke
youth sometimes misspent-youth
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. Anita Brookner
youth realizing stereotype
All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true. David Cronenberg
youth
A youth is to be regarded with respect. Confucius
youth wounds
Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound. Ambrose Bierce
youth possibility collections
Youth is above all a collection of possibilities. Albert Camus
youth pale late
He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living. Thornton Wilder
youth habit individual
Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals. Thomas Paine
youth stranger
Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself. Victor Hugo
youth found wanted
In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say. Victor Borge
stranger sisyphus
For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.
stranger walks
we walk the plank with strangers. Sylvia Plath
stranger
You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend. Truman Capote
stranger wanted own-business
I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going. Sara Blakely
stranger moments
It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself. Kenneth Oppel
stranger learning-to-love
I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me June Jordan
stranger truth-is
Truth is stranger than fishin. Jimmy Buffett