Apr 19, 2024
" [...] Fiction is a certain packaging of the truth, or higher truths. Indeed I find that there is more truth in Proust, albeit it is officially fictional, than in the babbling analyses of the New York Times that give us the illusions of understanding what's going on. Newspapers have officially the right facts, but their interpretations are imaginary - and their choice of facts are arbitrary. They lie with right facts; a novelist says the truth with wrong facts."
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in conversation with Rolf Dobelli