Truth is shorter than fiction.

quote by Irving Cohen
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I am not a myth.

quote by Marlene Dietrich
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

quote by J.M. Coetzee
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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

quote by Leo Rosten
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A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

quote by Edward Albee
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His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

quote by Gerald Clarke
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I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

quote by Laurell K. Hamilton
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If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

quote by Alma Guillermoprieto
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

quote by Susan Sontag
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Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

quote by Theodore Sturgeon
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

quote by Jeanne Moreau
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The difference between fiction and reality Fiction has to make sense.

quote by Tom Clancy
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I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

quote by Brendan Fraser
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

classic quote by Miles Davis
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

quote by Tom Clancy
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Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

quote by Dustin Hoffman
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

quote by Jack Vance
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The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.

quote by Steven T. Katz
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how do you know that God is a myth?

a myth
like the sphinx
and the phoenix
as the story goes
on and on
somehow
there was this death
at the end
and then immortality
in the same way
that my God
died and lived
forever

killing a myth
can be another myth
like asking how do you kill a myth
that does not exist?

when you finally give the correct answer

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

quote by Mark Twain
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