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"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."
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"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."
"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
"When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for the planet they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying."
"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."
"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
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"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed."
"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."
"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."
"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."
"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."
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