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Fictions Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts Picture Quote #1

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there Picture Quote #1

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries Picture Quote #1

The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me Picture Quote #1

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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity Picture Quote #1

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart Picture Quote #1

You can’t function in society if you don’t involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you’re playing a game Picture Quote #1

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge Picture Quote #1

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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate Picture Quote #1

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language Picture Quote #1

When we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment Picture Quote #1

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world Picture Quote #1

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People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept Picture Quote #1

The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else’s fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves Picture Quote #1

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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 (Fictions Quotes) 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 (Fictions Quotes) No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts (Fictions Quotes) I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there (Fictions Quotes) All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries (Fictions Quotes) The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me (Fictions Quotes) The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity (Fictions Quotes) Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart (Fictions Quotes) You can’t function in society if you don’t involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you’re playing a game (Fictions Quotes) Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them (Fictions Quotes) 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 (Fictions Quotes) Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge (Fictions Quotes) And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate (Fictions Quotes) In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language (Fictions Quotes) When we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment (Fictions Quotes) We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue (Fictions Quotes) 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 (Fictions Quotes) Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world (Fictions Quotes) People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept (Fictions Quotes) The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else’s fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves (Fictions Quotes)

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