truth is stranger than fiction en · X
Etymology
Attributed to Lord Byron.
Meanings
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Sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones.
It has often been said that truth is stranger than fiction. But what writer of the most extravagant fiction could have thought up such a life as that of William Kiffin? A poor orphan becoming one of the wealthiest merchants in the country; […]
1989, B. A. Ramsbottom, Stranger Than Fiction: The Life of William Kiffin, Gospel Standard Publications, →ISBN, page 7:In the end, truth is stranger than fiction: reality has more complications, more unanticipable twists and turns than fiction could ever imagine.
2003, Nicholas Rescher, Imagining Irreality: A Study of Unreal Possibilities, Open Court Publishing, →ISBN, page 239:
Forms
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| truth is often stranger than fiction | alternative | lexicographic | |
| fact is often stranger than fiction | alternative | lexicographic | |
| fact is stranger than fiction | alternative | lexicographic |
Relateds
life imitates art · straight out of Black Mirror
Translations (6)
ja 事実は小説より奇なり (sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones) · ga is iontaí fírinne ná finscéal (sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones) · es la realidad supera a la ficción (sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones) · fi totuus on tarua ihmeellisempää (sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones) · ro viața bate filmul (sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones) · fr la réalité dépasse la fiction (sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones)