“I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.”
"Oscar Wilde: On the Skids Again" (1987)
1980s, At Home (1988)
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Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer
The Way In (2000)
“No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book The Will to Power
Sec. 624, as translated by Tobias Dantzig in Number, the Language of Science. Fourth edition, New York: Doubleday 1954, p 141. See discussion of this entry for details.
The Will to Power (1888)
Samuel R. Delany book Neveryóna
Source: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 12, “Of Models, Monsters, Night, and the Numinous” (p. 367)
“I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!”
Homér Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
“Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
Source: The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949), Ch. 21, p. 465
Neil Harbisson (1984) Catalan-Irish musician, artist and activist
As quoted in TED Global (29 June 2012). "I can hear colour" http://blog.ted.com/2012/06/29/looking-forward-looking-back-tedglobal-2012-recap/tg12_28236_d41_7199-2/
“One reason why money is a mystery to so many is the role of myth or fiction or convention.”
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Source: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money
“People who love science fiction really do love sex.”
Susie Bright (1958) American writer and feminist