Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth is not.
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This appears to be from Following the Equator.Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
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Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
Stephen King
Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction … for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Edward Albee
Do not, under any circumstances belittle a works of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.
Azar Nafisi
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain)
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