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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
by Lawrence Durrell (Writer, British , born in 1912) keywords: bear, cannot, content, desire, each, fictions, manufacture, only, other, our, out, perhaps, rather, rest, sickness, than, truth , which They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.
by Ethan A. Hitchcock (Soldier, American , born in 1798) keywords: absolutely, alone, away, being, carried, danger, dreams, entirely, fictions, foundation, hold, immovable, into, mere, nature, reality, save, should, themselves, truth, upon , whereby The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
by Karl Jaspers (Psychologist, German , born in 1883) keywords: aspects, because, did, fictions, interest, intricate, juggling, know, law, left, life, mental, only, perceived, serves, study, unsatisfied , which I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
by Alice Munro (Writer, Canadian , born in 1931) keywords: astonishing, best, everything, feel, fictions, happens, long, reader, short, something, story, these, want , way All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
by Jeremy Northam (Actor, English , born in 1961) keywords: actually, being, documentaries, documentary, dramas, events, fictions, films, great, human, into, just, make, might, nature, novels, otherwise, situations, tell, tied, truth, us, well , without We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
by Plato (Philosopher , Greek) keywords: adapted, children, esteem, fictions, first, greatest, hear, importance, manner, most, ought, perfect, promotion, should, virtue , which Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
by Manuel Puig (Author, Argentinian , born in 1932) keywords: always, contrary, does, fictions, hand, imaginary, kafka, leaves, level, other, reality, refer , them A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
by Richard Schickel (Author, American , born in 1933) keywords: adaptations, because, become, characters, concerned, decoration, exercises, fail, fate, fictions, great, imposes, inconvenient, interior, lives, mere, monumental, movie, narratives, novel, often, primarily, respond, them , these According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
by Allen Tate (Poet, American , born in 1899) keywords: according, ambitions, anything, because, become, been, beg, confederate, could, desire, doctors, else, fictions, general, invent, personal, poet, set, society, up, use , would Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
by Robert Anton Wilson (Writer, American , born in 1932) keywords: different, each, exist, fictions, grammatical, groups, individual, individuals , only
