“The facts, if not true, were well invented; the arguments, if not logical, were seductive.”
—from The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Tag: Fiction
“If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist. We never will, of course. Maybe money is the great conspiracy, the great fiction. The great addiction too: we’re all addicted and we can’t break the habit now. There’s not even anything very twentieth century about it, except the disposition. You just can’t kick it, that junk, even if you want to. You can’t get the money monkey off your back.”
—from Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
“‘And though this be a poetical fiction, there is concealed moral in it, worthy to be observed, understood, and imitated.'”
—from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
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