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And with such fictions we are willing to ruin a human life! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. — Lawrence Durrell

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions. — Nancy Mairs

This is our tragedy, she said in his words, our fictions are killing us, but if we didn't have those fictions, maybe that would kill us too. — Salman Rushdie

I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea. — Erica Sehyun Song

Fact is one of our finest fictions. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I could have drowned today. If they hadn't been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn't woken up, I would have drowned. — Erica Sehyun Song

Rock and roll allowed people to lie about themselves, and to be sanctified for the extravagance of their fictions. This — Steve Almond

I closed my eyes and dived into foreign water. — Erica Sehyun Song

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice. — Ted Dekker

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart. — John Banville

Polite fictions are very important for dragons. — Bard Bloom

Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions. — Emile M. Cioran

people are so used to fictions that reality is difficult to react to — Sissel Tolaas

Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions. — Nick Cave

-Those who never face oppositions always stop at propositions.
-Those who never confront obstacles live with delays and postponements — Ikechukwu Joseph

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history. — Vernor Vinge

Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage. — Norman Lock

Fictions, whoppers and paradiddles. — Ransom Riggs

Nature is wilder and stranger than any of the fictions our imagination can create. — Marty Rubin

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true. — Jonathan Swift

I wonder, Are fictions safe places? And then I ask myself, Should they be safe places? — Neil Gaiman

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. — Haruki Murakami

Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do. — Bill Willingham

A yawning hole deep inside me was begging to be filled up with words and thoughts and ideas and facts and fictions.
Callum McGregor — Malorie Blackman

Why not make a fiction of the mind's fictions? — Natasha Trethewey

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge. — Timothy Leary

Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the mind of God. — Graham Greene

Fictions of law must be consistent with justice. — William Henry Maule

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next. — Ilsa J. Bick

If the characters of a fictional work can be readers or spectators, we, its readers or spectators, can be fictions. — Jorge Luis Borges

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one. — Anne Carson

She snorted in amusement at my remark. "When are the guards going to start to notice?"
Keith peered into the distance. "Starting now, — Erica Sehyun Song

Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison. — Christopher Hitchens

To be sane, we must recognise our beliefs as fictions. — James Hillman

Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn't going to stop us from being together. — Erica Sehyun Song

I have some knowledge of the time that may be misspent, clinging to fictions and supposing them truths. — Sarah Waters

Ok! So that's the spice. Typical gossips for or against a qualified newcomer! — Koral Dasgupta

On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless of the evidence, because they gratify some wish. — Martin Buber

We accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours. — Thomas C. Foster

This is not one of your fictions where people bleed ink. — Terence Paul Winter

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story. — Charles De Lint

Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

What did the truth matter? All characters once dead, if they continue to exist in memory at all, tend to become fictions. — Graham Greene

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions ... — David Hume

The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity. — William J. Mann

We authors, who trade in fictions for a living, are a continuum of all that we have seen and heard, and most importantly, all that we have read. — Neil Gaiman

We're making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves. — Clive Barker

We might not belong to anyone else in this whole world. But us Faulstiches,we belong to each other. — Karen Hesse

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed. — Vanna Bonta

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations. — David Levithan

Homer invented these fictions and attributed human powers to the gods; I wish he had attributed divine powers to us — Augustine Of Hippo

I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long. — Erica Sehyun Song

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. — Neil Gaiman

I told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she is clueless about the Guardianee? — Erica Sehyun Song

(paraphrasing 1 Cor. 1:25) that the fictions of God are truer than the facts of men.13 — Walter Brueggemann

And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones ... — Colin Meloy

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept. — Libba Bray

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Who says that fictions only and false hair
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is all good structure in a winding stair? — George Herbert

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions. — Richard Flanagan

I could have drowned ... and my brother didn't even care. — Erica Sehyun Song

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions. — Frank Kermode

Nationalism: the love of tribal fictions inspired by the hatred of social realities. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Then let's treat all these holy texts as stories, fictions, and imperfections that could excite us to tears or erections. — Rawi Hage

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments. — John Carroll

Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about. — Sanhita Baruah

It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions. — Robert Rhodes James

Generations are fictions. — Jeff Chang

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory. — Dan Chaon

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. — Orson Scott Card

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. — Robert Anton Wilson

Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can't MANHANDLE THEM! — Erica Sehyun Song