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“It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.”

Real Self Feelings Seems Found Fiction Teach Novel Circumstances Lessons Real Life Fancy Self Respect Ephemeral Delicacy

Author:Madame de Stael

“In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.”

Fiction Circumstances Walking Dancing Gravity Realism Confinement

Author:George Saunders

“Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.”

Belief Fiction Known Opinion Fantasy Impossible Reader Circumstances Judgment Essence Regard Science Fiction Subjective

Book:Pandemonium

Source: Pandemonium

“Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?”

Matter Together Fiction Identity Circumstances Ordinary Narrative Fragments Convenient

Author:Ann Leckie

“Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Character Would Be Turns Fiction Journey New York Circumstances Pages Sitting Very Good Metaphor Heavy Contemporary Mainstream Thinking About Life

Author:Karan Bajaj

“There's no specific punishment in the books of fiqh (Islamic laws) that relate to homosexuality per se. They apply to any illicit sexual relations, including prohibited heterosexual acts like adultery. And the punishments are strong, but they are legal fictions because they are impossible to prove. You need four witnesses to say they witnessed (sexual) penetration. In what circumstances are you going to find someone to testify to that?”

Needs Book Law Strong Fiction Four Impossible Circumstances Prove Relation Including Punishment Witness Relate Islamic Homosexuality Adultery Penetration Islamic Law

Author:Hamza Yusuf

“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work 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.”

Trying Real Reality Turns Fiction Circumstances Real Life Copies Carbon Epiphany Belittle Tehran

Book:Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books