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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448422" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fiction and Truthiness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The best fiction reminds us of what truth ought to be<br>and simultaneously calls that truth into being<br>if it doesn't yet exist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry is heightened awareness of that Fiction-Truth<br>heightened because we often are blind to truths we need.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Story telling is the art form which reminds us we are in fact<br>a small band before the fire, holding back the dark. There we invent<br>stories of hope to get us through the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The writer lives inside what-is- not- yet as a hedge against bad times<br>which may currently exist, and preserves for the future precious meanings murdered sometimes by the present.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Speaking is a capacity of the thorax, writing is the way the soul speaks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When speech is silenced we only have our imaginations against bad times and this has saved the world time and time again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">People die, ideas don't; that is the purpose of fiction.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The miracle of life is that I can shake your hand while dreaming of home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The only true gift of life is that out-pouring of love from us humans into anything. Thwart that and meet Hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Truth is not linear; truth now may not be truth later; truth then may not be truth now, Truth travels but it is not the world that has changed it is that the world has changed us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Find a man obsessed with the absolute truth of anything, religious or scientific, and I will show you a fanatic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Truth is not enough even if it is true.<br> <br>Find a man who thinks he is right about anything totally and I will show you a man with a stick ready to use it to prove he is right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How many times have our ideals of what ought to be allowed us to kill, hurt and harm flesh and blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ideology is a serious disease resulting from a prolonged exposure to Idiots.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The purpose of truth is to make human and life on this planet possible.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Untruth is what destroys human life and this planet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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