“There is no story that is not true.”
Source: Things Fall Apart
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Chinua Achebe63
Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic 1930–2013Related quotes
“Stories are a different kind of true.”
Source: Room (novel) (2010)
Context: "Are stories true?"
"Which ones?"
"The mermaid mother and Hansel and Gretel and all them."
"Well," says Ma, "not literally."
"What's—"
"They're magic, they're not about real people walking around today."
"So they're fake?"
"No, no. Stories are a different kind of true."
“A likely story — and probably true.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
The Al Jolson Show repartee following a trite, scripted Al Jolson joke. (1949)
“Good stories are rarely true.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Tunnel in the Sky
Source: Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Chapter 3, "Through the Tunnel"
“Some stories are true that never happened.”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
“All true stories end in death.”
Matthew Stover book Blade of Tyshalle
(X.6) Del Rey, p. 380
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)