"It's in literature that true life can be……" — Gao Xingjian
"It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth."
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21 Quotes by Gao Xingjian
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Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.
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For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned.…
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Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.
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Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.
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Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.
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I believe in science but I also believe in fate.
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Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.
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Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the…
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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…
— J. J. Abrams
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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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