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Topic·Truth vs. fiction✕clear

Poem

Tis strange,—but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

Don Juan · 1823

★ 3.9

Travel writing

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 3.9

Political literature

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

The Origins of Totalinarianism · 1951

★ 3.6

Film · Western (film) · Western

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

Maxwell Scott

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance · 1962

★ 3.6

Interview · Magazine

Facts are slippery. The truth is imperfect. Fiction recognizes that.

Salman Rushdie

2015

★ 2.1

Film · War (film) · War

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

Col. Hans Landa

Inglourious Basterds · 2009

★ 1.9

Short story

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

1905

★ 1.9

Interview · Magazine

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

2015

★ 1.0

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