“The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.” PeopleWayBookSometimesLiteratureDealsFictionQualityTruth IsPureAssumingResponseCuriosityMediumsAffectedOutlook Author:Vance Palmer
“This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.” CountrySeemsNamesFictionGreaterIllusionAssumingExperimentsRejectedModernityApparitionsDevilish Book:Fado Source: Fado
“You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.” PersonsFictionCamerasAssumingVideoControlledEditing Author:Barbara Degenevieve
“In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy, and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method of dealing with the world around us is to assume that it is a complete fiction - conversely, the one small node of reality left to us is inside of our own heads.” WorldMindHas BeensDreamRealitySeemsPastLeftImaginationFictionRolesFantasyAmbitionMethodAssumingRealmsUncertainConfusingPrudentInner World Author:J. G. Ballard