Truth Quote by Cao Xueqin Download Open image ““Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true; Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.”” — Cao Xueqin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Truth
“Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the… — Hiroshi Ishizaki Copy Share Image
“Fiction is not fake, fiction is non-fiction in the wrong reality.” — Sara Koochagian Copy Share Image
“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.” — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.” — Nathaniel Robert Winters Copy Share Image
“To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.” — Henry Martin Copy Share Image
“Not chewed-off ends of the sky’s embroidery? ‘What are they?’ – ‘Raise the blind a bit and see.’ ‘A white hand snatches some and… — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
“If with the water’s rosy hue comparison be made, Carmine tears and dewy flowers seem of the self-same shade. Yet lady’s tears and flowers… — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
“True learning implies a clear insight into human activities. Genuine culture involves the skilful manipulation of human relationships.” — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
“most common people oft he market-place much prefer light literature to improving books. The problem is, that so many romances contain slanderous anecdotes about… — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
“There was a peal of laughter from the girls. Then, before anyone could say a word, the line was seen to move a fraction.… — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
“The cunning waste their pains; The wise men vex their brains; But the simpleton, who seeks no gains, With belly full, he wanders free… — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
“Can I, that these flowers’ obsequies attend, Divine how soon or late my life will end? Let others laugh flower-burial to see: Another year… — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
“As for the ‘settling of accounts’ that Bao-yu had proposed to Qin Zhong, we have been unable to ascertain exactly what form this took;… — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
“The immortal parts of the late Droopy’s relict leaped through her cranium and described several somersaults in the air. She” — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
“She walked indoors, and staring once more at her orchids, thought to herself: ‘Flowers have their spring-time, a time for fresh blossoms and young… — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image