Fact And Fiction Quotes

• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Science, Fiction

  Following the Equator ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Byron 33; Chesterton 6

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• Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

  Daniel Suarez

  Reality, Ideas, Fiction

  Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.18, Penguin

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• The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.

  Hannah Arendt

  People, Fiction, True And False

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• Fact and fiction are different truths.

  Patricia MacLachlan

  Different, Fiction, Facts

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• Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.

  Jack Johnson

  Team, Believe, Fiction

  Song: It's All Understood, Album: Brushfire Fairytales

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• The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

  Antony Beevor

  Historical, Facts, Fiction

  "Real concerns" by Antony Beevor, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.

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• In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Writing, Black, Ink

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• I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Fiction, Lines, Facts

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• Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle it, you know; I'm a big boy. And the entertainment industry has always been crazy. But the problem is, it spills over into some very serious issues, in politics and real newsworthy stuff.

  Rob Lowe

  Growing Up, Real, Crazy

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.

  Kobo Abe

  People, Police, Fiction

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• It's what we live for, to be able to make great illusions. The thing about 'Entourage' is everything we do is realistic. We go to the real places, we shoot on location. We get the real people. It's a perfect marriage between fact and fiction.

  Adrian Grenier

  Real, People, Perfect

  "At 'Entourage' Season 7 premiere, life imitates art - witness Adrian Grenier's hair updated". latimesblogs.latimes.com. June 17, 2010.

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• I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

  James Frey

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort of translate it. They’re like translations, and then part of it is fiction, which is invention.

  Vija Celmins

  Fiction, Facts, Painting

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• Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Historical, Fiction, Facts

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• This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from The Origin of Species. To establish the continuity required by theory, historical arguments are invoked, even though historical evidence is lacking. Thus are engendered those fragile towers of hypothesis based on hypothesis, where fact and fiction intermingle in an inextricable confusion.

  W. R. Thompson

  Mean, Confusion, Historical

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• In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.

  Stephen King

  Strong, Dark, Light

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• I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

  James McGreevey

  Self, Two, Fiction

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• Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.

  Andrew Vachss

  Max, Fiction, Facts

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• In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

  Elissa Schappell

  Together, Facts, Female

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• I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

  Eleanor Antin

  Photography, Dubious, Fiction

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