"The only imaginative fiction being written today is……" — Herman Wouk
"The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns."
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36 Quotes by Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk has 36 quotes on this site.
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Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
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Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens,…
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This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.
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Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
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I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
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Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young…
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War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad…
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The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find…
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Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you…
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My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we…
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The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we…
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The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library.…
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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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…
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter…
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