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Fiction Quote by Mark Twain

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” quote by Mark Twain — Download Open image

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

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“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal…

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There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

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“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to the building up of a vast array of wonderful church edifices, and starving half her citizens to accomplish it. She is today one vast museum of magnificence and misery. All the churches in an ordinary American…

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

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I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone…

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