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The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
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The cross is the centre of the world’s history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history
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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily, That is what Fiction means.
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The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. *` * * They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change–that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.
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The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn’t imagine ourselves through a day without it.
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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
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The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.
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The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there’s only narrative.
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There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.
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Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.
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Tis strange – but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.
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Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.
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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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