“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”

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Colombian writer 1927–2014

Phil Vischer (1966) American puppeter

From Disc Two; Behind the Scenes: Jonah and the Bible (00:02:59-00:03:18)
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie DVD (2002)

“Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale… Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.”

J. G. Ballard (1930–2009) British writer

"Inner Landscape : Interview with J.G. Ballard" by Robert Lightfoot and David Pendleton, in Friends No. 17 (30 October 1970) http://www.jgballard.ca/media/1970_oct_friends_magazine.html; also quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) by Robert Andrews <br class="br">Context: A hundred years ago one has the impression that people had made a clear distinction between the outer world of work and of agriculture, commerce and social relationships — which was real — and the inner world of their own minds, day-dreams and hopes. Fiction on the one hand; reality on the other. This reality which surrounded individuals, the writer's role of inventing a fiction that encapsulated various experiences going on in the real world and dramatising them in fictional form, worked. Now the whole situation has been reversed. The exterior landscapes of the seventies are almost entirely fictional ones created by advertising, mass merchandising… politics conducted as advertising. It is very difficult for the writer.<br>Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

“There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.”

Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers

Pherecydes, 2.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

“The day I made that statement, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder.”

Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States

Joking about reports that he had claimed to have invented the internet, as quoted in The Boston Globe (9 April 1999).

“He gets flustered if I am not present at all the important functions in his home. He would keep asking people whether I had arrived. It has been so for years now.”

Rajinikanth (1950) Indian actor

SP. Muthuraman, on his closeness to the actor.
Rajinikanth: A Birthday Special (12 December 2012)

“For all I know this has come very late in the day and it's a bit too late … Had my father been here, I believe he would have respected and upheld the rule of law.”

Koila Nailatikau (1953) Fijian politician

7 May 2005
On the government's proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission, 7 May, 2005

“When I read that a "big fish" swallowed Jonah — it does not say whale. That is my recollection of it. A big fish, and I believe it, and I believe in a God who can make a whale and can make a man and make both what He pleases. … One miracle is just as easy to believe as another. … It is hard to believe for you, but easy for me. A miracle is a thing performed beyond what man can perform. When you get within the realm of miracles; and it is just as easy to believe the miracle of Jonah as any other miracle in the Bible.”

William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925) United States Secretary of State

Scopes Trial (1925), Day 7

“Rubinstein was wonderful. For three days he spent hours playing the piano in my room, and then asking me what I thought of this and that. After a while he told my mother that I had talent and he thought I should be a musician.”

Arthur Rubinstein (1887–1982) Polish-American classical pianist

Antonio de Almeida — reported in Paul Hume (July 28, 1981) "Odyssey Of a Conductor", The Washington Post, p. C4.
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“I would have told you that three or four days ago, but we never had a chance, because you never asked me the question.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Trump, about taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to prevent Covid-19 disease, as quoted in * 2020-05-18
FDA: This Drug Could Kill You. Trump: I’m Taking It!
Justin Paragona, Adam Rawnsley
The Daily Beast
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reveals-hes-now-taking-unproven-anti-malarial-drug-fda-warned-against
2020s, 2020, May

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