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

Deals Fiction Risk Tongue Contradiction Prompts

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:

“If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.”

Ifs Believe Running Fiction Nice Risk Enlightenment Evidence Decent Buying Friendly Betray Virtuous Bishops

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.”

World Writing Believe Mean Character Fiction Risk Writing Fiction

Author:Phil Klay

“Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can be approached in fiction than in fact. There are risks for the reader, because after reading certain books you find you have changed irreversibly. There are risks for writers: in China, now, and Ethiopia and other countries right now, writers face real persecution.”

“If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale. Fiction is closest to pure narrative, and pure narrative is simply the logic we try to impose on an ever-changing reality.”

Ifs Trying Art Reality Fiction Risk Pure Logic Tales Narrative Fairy Fairy Tale Closest Risk It Changing Reality

Author:Chris Abani