Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged t…

Mark Twain
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ✨ Following the Equator ch. 15, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar (1897) See Byron 33; Chesterton 6
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