"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."

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"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."

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Stephen King, American Author

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"The whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."

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"Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media."

Robert Lutz, American Executive

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"If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination."

Harold Brodkey, American Author

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"And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Fiction, Art, Challenges, Growth

"The beautiful illusion of fiction is that everything makes sense and that there was a purpose, that there was a point to it all. And that's the best possible lie because it may even be true."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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