Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible. — Richard Posner
Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. — Luigi Pirandello
It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening. — Eminem
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. — Werner Heisenberg
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination. — Hunter S. Thompson
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show. — David Gerrold
Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual. — Tim Burton
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. — Stephen King
I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger. — Heath Ledger
I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for. — Haruki Murakami
Short Stranger Than Fiction Quotes
There is no beauty without some strangeness — Edgar Allan Poe
I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours. — Lewis Carroll
There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979 — Kinky Friedman
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. — Hunter S. Thompson
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. — David Lynch
Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements. — Bruce Willis
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. — Jessamyn West
The world is a strange and wonderful place. — Laurie Anderson
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. — William Faulkner
Stranger Than Fiction Image Quotes
There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't meet.
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction Quotes
I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper. — Benicio Del Toro
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. — Leo Rosten
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational. — Sydney J. Harris
A friend may be waiting behind a strangers face.
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. — Lord Byron
Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional. — Pseudonymous Bosch
As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event. — Brock Yates
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard. — Craig Silvey
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. — G. K. Chesterton
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. — Mark Twain
The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating. — Greg Cox
Life Is Stranger Than Fiction Quotes
This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted. — Dustin Hoffman
Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a bad review. You can go, "This guy doesn't have me figured out." There's more mystery to you than they understand. — Dolph Lundgren
Real life is much stranger than fiction, man. — Mike D
Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler.
It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that I'm so blessed to play are some of the most compelling stories, and the truth is stranger than fiction. — Hilary Swank
Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that. — Michio Kaku
Youth is stranger than fiction. — Rupert Brooke
Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. — Carol Alt
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. — David Benioff
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. — H. L. Mencken
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about. — Julian Schnabel
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. — Frederic Raphael
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. — Mark Twain
Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down. — Ricky Gervais
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth. — W. Somerset Maugham
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. — Mark Twain
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. — William Randolph
Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well. — Brad Holland
I like films about people who figured out what they believed and had the guts to act on it in a way that added value to others. So, there are lots of movies that have characters who did that. I'll pick an odd one - Stranger Than Fiction because I really liked the movie - particularly the offbeat cookie maker. You'll have to see the movie to see what I mean. The movie also reinforces that you can be the author of your own script. — Robert S. Kaplan
There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story. — Jeff Feuerzeig
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better. — Jon Weisman
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. — Mark Twain
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent. — Mark Twain
In some ways truth is stranger than fiction. — Mario Van Peebles
On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page. — Marc Forster
The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth. — Gertrude Stein
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