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“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature to those of us who like to study people is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without hurting anyone and without humiliating himself too much.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.” Stephen King, 11/22/63
“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“The important thing to understand about American history . . . is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“The future is there . . . looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.” William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

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