A Quote by H. L. Mencken
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
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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.
Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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.
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.
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