Saturday, September 21, 2013

Truth in Fiction

Everything one invents is true. -- Gustave Flaubert 
What is remembered is what becomes reality.-- Patricia Hampl
True to life becomes fiction when it perceives more than observes. -- Wright Morris 
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. --  Oscar Wilde

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