truth is stranger than fiction

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Attributed to Lord Byron.[1][2]

Proverb

truth is stranger than fiction

  1. Sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones.
    • 1989, B. A. Ramsbottom, Stranger Than Fiction: The Life of William Kiffin, Gospel Standard Publications (→ISBN), page 7:
      It has often been said that truth is stranger than fiction. But what writer of the most extravagant fiction could have thought up such a life as that of William Kiffin? A poor orphan becoming one of the wealthiest merchants in the country; […]
    • 2003, Nicholas Rescher, Imagining Irreality: A Study of Unreal Possibilities, Open Court Publishing (→ISBN), page 239:
      In the end, truth is stranger than fiction: reality has more complications, more unanticipable twists and turns than fiction could ever imagine.

References

  1. ^ Gary Martin (1997–) “Truth is stranger than fiction”, in The Phrase Finder.
  2. ^ Lua error in Module:quote at line 2585: |1= is an alias of |year=; cannot specify a value for both
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