which is a small but critical distinction.

And I began to start thinking of myself as we start having mash ups of fact and fiction, docu dramas, mockumentaries, whatever you call it.

And when I say, just a story,

The other recognizes no frontiers.

This game is a work of fiction.

Identity politics divides us. Fiction connects.

Facts are facts.

When we read non fiction books, we're really being fed stories.

They're just... fiction, myths, stories.

So a human encountering the divine, as Muslims believe Muhammad did, to the rationalist, this is a matter not of fact but of wishful fiction, and like all of us, I like to think of myself as rational.

Separating the truth from the fiction and the accurate connections from the misunderstandings is part of what you learn here.

This work is fiction. It has no relationship with any real persons, organizations, etc.

A part of my talk is going to be about investment opportunities that exist on this continent, to separate the rhetoric from the reality, the fact from the fiction.

I spent two years of my life building the user experience team for the Google X division of Google, and it's a place I affectionately call the Department of Science Fiction because of the futuristic nature of the types of projects we took on self driving cars,

and... and it would be, except for the simple fact that... it's true.

If you're riding a bus and hear an interesting conversation, you could write it all down.

Well, that's very nice of you.

Fact!

But the truth is..

And I said I do.

Celie in Alice Walker's The Color Purple.

That's a fact.

It's the truth.

Hey, he's serious.

Instead, I began to write about people other than me and things that never really happened.

I'm a storyteller. I want to convey something that is truer than truth about our common humanity.

I got no suspicions.

I discovered that they had a completely different genetic profile.

What facts?

It happens to be true.

It's true, you know, though, Rimmer.

You know it's true.

Maybe he didn't.

It is real, Brendan.

That's what you said?

And who are you?

We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies.

I have a secret? I know I have a secret, I...

'You don't know much,' said the Duchess

These are real.

That's not how it happened.

Very good, Very good

That's not what happened.

They are true.

I don't think so.