Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
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A Little Book in C Major (1916)H. L. Mencken
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Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction … for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Caringosity killed the Kerouac cat.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.Jack Kerouac
It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead — I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction. Certainly it has given consolation, but consolation is not the right thing! Consolation is opium. It keeps you unaware of the reality, and life is flowing past you so quickly — seventy years will be gone soon. Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth. The very desire to find the truth disappears. But in the beginning it is bitter if all your belief systems are taken away from you. The fear and anxiety which you have been suppressing for millennia, which is there, very alive, will surface immediately. No God can destroy it, only the search for truth and the experience of truth — not a belief — is capable of healing all your wounds, of making you a whole being. And the whole person is the holy person to me.
Osho
Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
Stephen King
A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Edward Albee
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