"The offshore companies are a fiction and the statement that the money is offshore is a fiction," said Edward D. Kleinbard, former staff director for the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.
If the century through which we just lived was not a complete fiction, Grassley's statement that Obama's "plans fail to recognize that Americans are not an endless source of tax dollars to pay for government spending.
José Vivanco, the Americas director for Human Rights Watch, called the Peña Nieto administration's explanation of what happened to the missing students a "fiction" in a statement released after the EAAF report.
He made it clear that the Del Valles were nothing like the fictional Morenos, who treated Ramona poorly, but he too would mix fact with fiction with such statements as, "[the veranda] is about a hundred feet in length and runs from the door of Father Salvierderra's room to that of Ramona's room".
Fiction, the argument follows, can be true in the same way "If" statements are true.
If your work is fictional, include this statement also: "This is a work of fiction.
I'm not out to make fiction into a political statement.
"Whenever they make a decision, it's not meant to be a statement about fiction in general," Mr. Gissler said.
"Whenever they make a decision, it's not meant to be a statement about fiction in general," Mr. Gissler said on Monday.
There's a certain tautology to Wallace's statements: what fiction isn't about what it's like to be a human being?
He came to New York City in 1957, and by the early seventies had begun to publish English-language short stories in cutting-edge magazines like Confrontation, The Element, Extensions, and Statements: New Fiction.
