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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
folks takers time variety wide
Folks from D.C. come up here from time to time to look at a wide variety of things. We don't get very many takers in the wintertime, but we always offer. Mike Heatwole
folks hawks suddenly tax
Folks don't suddenly become tax hawks once they get to Austin. Mike Schofield
folks hands popping rubbing time wild
Folks (at the FCC) are rubbing their hands as to how wild it could go and at the same time popping aspirins as to how disappointing it could be, Richard Doherty
folks leading
We couldn't have better folks leading the charge. Mark Cavanaugh
folk guess songs
I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em. Big Bill Broonzy
folk huge music playing punk school shows twice
I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music. Benjamin Booker
folk help
We have everything from folk to punk, but it doesn't help that there is no place to play. Aaron Baer
folks
[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford. Tamora Pierce
folks nations
Old folks are the nation. Toni Cade Bambara
mainstream niche technology
This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly. Daniel Anderson
mainstream-culture way racket
I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it. Steve Albini
mainstream operating starting
There are also some 30 kickbacks that we are starting to use in the mainstream of the operating system. Tom Goguen
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 son progress
But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress. Janet Suzman
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
seemed
I didn't see any survivalists; it seemed to be more for profit. Fred Williams
seemed
I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall. Hope Schulte
sort typical
I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over. Thom Browne
sort
I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias. Ray Stevenson
sort trying
We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out. Jay Frank
sort white
I think he does sort of have this patina of independence. But I don't think he is all that independent from the White House. Gordon Fischer
sort tends
Desperation tends to make one sort of flexible. MacGyver MacGyver
sort summer time winter year
This is the time of year when stockpiles should be rising. We're in that sort of in-between period. Winter is sort of over and summer hasn't really started. Andrew Harrington
sort
What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality. Candace Parker
sort sudden turned
I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude. Alan Greenspan
sort
I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue. Kerry Washington