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Truth vs. fiction8 quotes
Tis strange,—but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction. — Lord Byron · 1823Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. — Mark Twain · 1897The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist. — Hannah Arendt · 1951This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. — Maxwell Scott · 1962Facts are slippery. The truth is imperfect. Fiction recognizes that. — Salman Rushdie · 2015Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing. — Col. Hans Landa · 2009All 8 quotes →Truth7 quotes
Tis strange,—but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction. — Lord Byron · 1823Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. — Mark Twain · 1897The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist. — Hannah Arendt · 1951This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. — Maxwell Scott · 1962Facts are slippery. The truth is imperfect. Fiction recognizes that. — Salman Rushdie · 2015Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction...For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it. — G.K. Chesterton · 1905All 7 quotes →American West1 quote
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. — Maxwell Scott · 1962Disinformation1 quote
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist. — Hannah Arendt · 1951Facts1 quote
Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing. — Col. Hans Landa · 2009Fake news1 quote
Things get passed around so easily on the internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to arbitrate and say, what are your sources? — Hilary Mantel · 2015Fiction1 quote
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. — Mark Twain · 1897Journalism1 quote
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. — Maxwell Scott · 1962Literature1 quote
Facts are slippery. The truth is imperfect. Fiction recognizes that. — Salman Rushdie · 2015Media1 quote
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. — Maxwell Scott · 1962Media criticism1 quote
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. — Maxwell Scott · 1962Nature of truth1 quote
Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction...For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it. — G.K. Chesterton · 1905Rumors1 quote
Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing. — Col. Hans Landa · 2009The internet1 quote
Things get passed around so easily on the internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to arbitrate and say, what are your sources? — Hilary Mantel · 2015Totalitarianism1 quote
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist. — Hannah Arendt · 1951