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"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it." »G. K. Chesterton
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"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction." »Mark Twain
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"Why shoudn't truth be stranger than fiction Fiction, after all, has to stick to the possibilities." »Mark Twain
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"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." »Sydney Harris
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"The difference between fiction and reality fiction has to make sense." »Tom Clancy
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"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope." »Thomas Edison
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"Victory is a political fiction." »Anonymous
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"Truth is shorter than fiction." »Irving Cohen
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"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction." »Mark Twain
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"fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything." »Ivana Trump
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"It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise." »Nancy Thayer
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"It's never too late -- in fiction or in life -- to revise." »Nancy Thayer
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"Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity." »G. K. Chesterton
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"Gabriel Well...life is stranger than fiction sometimes." »Swordfish
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"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." »G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)
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"If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction." »William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4
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"fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." »Mark Twain
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"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." »Herman Wouk
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"Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty." »Oscar Wilde
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"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." »Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
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"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." »Frank Herbert
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"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life." »Simone Weil
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"Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections." »Malcom Forbes
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"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction." »Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
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"The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary." »Franklin P. Adams
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"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later." »Stanley Kubrick
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"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists" »Kelvin III Throop
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