Truth is stranger than fiction
Truth is stranger than fiction definition
Sometimes what actually happens is more bizarre than anything that could have been imagined.
truth is stranger than fiction
Real life can be more remarkable than invented tales, as in In our two-month trip around the world we ran into long-lost relatives on three separate occasions, proving that truth is stranger than fiction. This expression may have been invented by Byron, who used it in Don Juan (1833).
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