"Life is a means of extracting fiction." — Robert Stone

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• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find… — Saint Augustine
• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. — Henry Ward Beecher
• He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into… — Jonathan Swift
• I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for… — Hans Selye
• I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting. — Nahum Goldmann
• I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental… — Sandra Steingraber
• Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me,… — Aimee Mann
• I kind of have to be a master of cleaning, extracting and trusting my data before I do anything with… — Scott Nicholson
• The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS). — Pat Buchanan
• Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business. — Jeff Goodell
• Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to… — Thomas Homer-Dixon
• The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of… — Christina Stead

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