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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 lessons would-be
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction. Scott Turow
lessons century aggression
If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies. Bob Dole
lessons
Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson. T. S. Eliot
lessons characteristics treats
This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning. Sydney J. Harris
lessons chess should
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions. Thomas Jefferson
lessons
Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing. Richard Branson
lessons kind persons
Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it. Taylor Mali
lessons sometimes teach
God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons. John Muir
lessons worst teach
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense. Philip Roth
lessons use pity
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. Oscar Wilde
would-be attention known
I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place. Brandon Routh
would-be sensible things-to-do
I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do. Jane Gardam
would-be imagine slave
There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work. Aristotle
would-be ifs one-word
If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time. Andy Goldsworthy
would-be firsts episodes
First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode. Anthony Michael Hall
would-be use firsts
Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?
would-be fabric arches
In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part. Robert Boyle
would-be ifs
He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs. Stephen Chbosky
would-be want proud
No matter how you were born, no matter how you identify, I want to be clear that I would be proud to grind you up and eat you. Stephen Colbert