Who said life is stranger than fiction




















In addition, the phrasing was changed: 5. In the noteworthy essayist and detective writer G. Chesterton presented a thematically related statement: 6. If the chaps who write these stories would get a little more naturalness into their yarns there would be more published.

The screenplay was by Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Rosten used an asterisk footnote to assign credit to Mark Twain: If you doubt this, settle down as I give you a sample of some recent carryings-on of the human species.

Peter contained a version of the saying. Interestingly, the instance given by Peter matched the instance given by Rosten, and both were ascribed to Twain: For novelty, lunacy and surprise, fiction cannot begin to compete with fact. Mark Twain knew why: Fiction has to make sense. The difference between reality and fiction? The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense. These adages assert that fiction must accord with possibilities or probabilities.

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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. Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. Fact is stranger than fiction. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. 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! The truth is stranger than fiction. Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. 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.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent. If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

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. We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause.

They are here to save our lives. Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. 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. Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television.

You have to tone it down. Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction.

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