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My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and…
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But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
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It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect,…
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A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
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All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.
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Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
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you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the…
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The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with…
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Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.
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I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we…
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Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting,…
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Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from,…
— Benjamin Hoff
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The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed…
— Sigmund Freud
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The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical…
— Arthur Koestler
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A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
— Helen Rowland
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One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that,…
— Sigmund Freud
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..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at…
— Barbara Mertz
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Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy…
— Karl Marx
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Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to…
— Tim O'Brien
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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint
— Brent Weeks
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