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Col. Hans Landa1 quote
Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing. — Col. Hans Landa · 2009G.K. Chesterton1 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 · 1905Hannah Arendt1 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 · 1951Hilary Mantel1 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 · 2015Lord Byron1 quote
Tis strange,—but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction. — Lord Byron · 1823Mark Twain1 quote
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. — Mark Twain · 1897Maxwell Scott1 quote
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. — Maxwell Scott · 1962Salman Rushdie1 quote
Facts are slippery. The truth is imperfect. Fiction recognizes that. — Salman Rushdie · 2015