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Stranger Than Fiction Quotes

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
- Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
- Mark Twain

Of course truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to have a plot!
- Mark Twain

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.
- Carol Alt

Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself, "Fiction can't compete with this."
But when I mentioned this to a veteran manga artist friend of mine he said that "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all."
His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit.
- Hiromu Arakawa

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
- David Benioff

Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!
How oft would vice and virtue places change!
The new world would be nothing to the old,
If some Columbus of the moral seas
Would show mankind their souls' antipodes.
- George Byron

Truth is stranger than fiction
- George Byron

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
- Brad Holland

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
- H L Mencken

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
- William Randolph

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
- Frederic Raphael

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
- Leo Rosten

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
- Julian Schnabel

You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.
- Craig Silvey

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