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A public is a necessary fiction.
Rowan Williams
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Rowan Williams
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Born:
Jun 14
,
1950
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It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
Nancy Thayer
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat
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Everybody Else
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov
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Become
Saved
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Critics
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Individual
Crucial
Science Fiction
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Essence
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Ever
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Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.
Hunter S. Thompson
Truth
Truth Is
Seen
Weirder
Than
Any
Fiction
I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.
Steven Wright
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Glasses
Reading
Other
Wearing
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Non-Fiction
Same
Fiction
Each
Pair
Pairs
Twice
Two
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Westerns
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Should
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron
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Strange
Truth Is
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