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“God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.”

People Reality Faces Fiction Conditions

Author:Michel Onfray

“Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological states and the symbolic knowledge encoded within the collective unconscious; things, events and conditions that are otherwise too diffuse and/or complex to be completely digested or appreciated by the prevailing culture.”

“It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.”

Feels Humans Seems Fiction Conditions Produce Human Condition

Author:Vivian Gornick

“Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction.”

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Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Men do not live by truth alone; they also need lies: those that they invent freely, not those that are imposed on them; those that appear as they are, not smuggled in beneath the clothes of history. Fiction enriches their existence, completes them and, fleetingly, compensates them for this tragic condition which is our lot: always to desire and dream more than we can actually achieve.”

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Book:Making Waves: Essays

Source: Making Waves: Essays

“I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“The condition of visibility as it relates to black people was crucial. Connected to that, I've always been interested in science fiction and horror films and was acutely aware of the political and social implications of Ralph Ellison's description of invisibility as it relates to black people, as opposed to the kind of retinal invisibility that H.G. Wells described in his novel Invisible Man.”