"Humanity lives in its fiction." — Blaise Cendrars
"Humanity lives in its fiction."
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13 Quotes by Blaise Cendrars
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One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious,…
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A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to…
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I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me…
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For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is…
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Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit,…
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Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a…
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Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted…
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I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.
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Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a…
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My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the…
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Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait
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what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action,…
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More Fiction Quotes
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
— Paul Auster
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
— Isaac Asimov
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
— Isaac Asimov
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
— Margaret Atwood
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
— Margaret Atwood
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and…
— Margaret Atwood
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I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter…
— Margaret Atwood
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