“Good stories are rarely true.”
Source: Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Chapter 3, "Through the Tunnel"
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Chinua Achebe book Things Fall Apart
Variant: The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 15 (p. 130)
Context: "We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]
"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"
Lindsey Davis book Last Act in Palmyra
Last Act in Palmyra
Context: The new "humour", if you can call it that, is pure malicious gossip. Instead of making a genuine point, it's now good enough to repeat any ribald story without a thought for whether it's even true.
“A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.”
Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011) American-Irish novelist
