A Quote by Mario Van Peebles
In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.
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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.
Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.
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.
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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 .
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.
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.
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