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“The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.”

Facts Form Fiction Pure Edges Can Not Fables Symmetry Ragged Narration

Book:The Poems of Herman Melville

Source: The Poems of Herman Melville

“Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.”

Fiction Teacher Morality Science Fiction Fables

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Fiction or fable allures to instruction.”

Fiction Instruction Fables Allure

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.”

Lying Fiction Teach Truth Is Charm Truest Fables

Book:The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...

Source: The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...

“History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.”

Facts Hands Fiction History Fables Recitals

Book:Voltaire's Alphabet of wit

Source: Voltaire's Alphabet of wit

“My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to imagine alternate worlds, to writing about [Buckminster] Fuller who was the ultimate world man creating all sorts of alternate worlds and believing that they were imminent to my own work of - for instance, a project that I've been working on for some year and a half, two years now that continues to evolve has been what I call Deep Time Photography.”