“Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange,
Stranger than Fiction”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Variant: For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
“But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.”
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Source: City of Thieves
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“Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.”
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Or, for that matter, as true.
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“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.”
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1910s
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713) English politician and Earl
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