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“The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.”

House Fiction Window

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Henry James

Author

“She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.”

Fiction Rivers Blue

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Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

“I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.”

Fiction Modern

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

“Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.”

Strong Fiction

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Freeman Dyson

Theoretical Physicist

“Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.”

Dream Fiction Landscape

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Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

“People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.”

People Men Fiction

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Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

“I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.”

Men Fiction Rays

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'”

World Answers Fiction

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.”

May Fiction Math

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Khaled Hosseini

Author, Physician

“There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.”

Fiction Elements Woven

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.”

Use Doubt Fiction

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Khaled Hosseini

Author, Physician

“Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.”

Alive Fiction Periods

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