Tom Clancy
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- It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense --Mark Twain
Mark Twain supposedly stole this from Lord Byron. Then,150 years later author Tom Clancy 'borrowed' it from Twain, “It is always harder to write fiction than truth- because fiction has to make sense! ...
The saying "truth is stranger than fiction" originates from cantos 14 of Don Juan: "'Tis strange — but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction". In 1858, Josiah Henson (1789-1883), a Maryland-born slave, wrote an autobiography titled Truth Stranger than Fiction. Henson was supposedly the real-life Uncle Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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