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“Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.”

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Author:Amy Waldman

“Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of Richard Savage: Collated with the Best Editions:

Source: The Poetical Works of Richard Savage: Collated with the Best Editions:

“When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .”

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:

Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:

“It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.”

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Author:Michael Helm