‘T is strange — but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) English poet
Don Juan, Canto 14, st. 101 (1823)
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Apparent origin of the phrase "Truth is stranger than fiction."


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