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1823
Don Juan
XIV
. ci.
Truth is always strange, Stranger than Fiction.
1863
Hard Cash
II. xv.
Sampson was greatly struck with the revelation: he .. said truth was stranger than fiction.
1905
Club of Queer Trades
133
‘Do you believe that truth is stranger than fiction?’ ‘Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction,’said Basil placidly. ‘For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore congenial to it.’
1981
Loitering with Intent
i.
‘Human nature,’ said Sir Quentin, ‘is a quite extraordinary thing …You know the old adage, truth is stranger than fiction?’
1996
American Spectator
June 47
Truth is stranger than fiction, and thus too complicated for the sound-bite age.