Truth is stranger than fiction
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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".
Mark Twain appropriated it from Lord Byron when he said "It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense!"
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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- Truth and fiction
- Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. --Marianne Moore
- The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed --Edgar Allan Poe, 1840
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