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Fact is stranger than fiction
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Fact is stranger than fiction, and Truth is stranger than fiction.
Prov. Things that really happen are harder to believe or more amazing than stories that people invent. Did you see the story in the newspaper about the criminal who attacks people with a toenail clipper? Fact is stranger than fiction! Jill: I can't believe someone's paying 900 dollars for Tom's broken-down old car—it doesn't even run. Jane: Truth is stranger than fiction.
See also: fact, stranger
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Byline: GRAHAM YOUNG THEY say truth is stranger than fiction.
Jolie has eyes on Oscar; The Big Movie CHANGELING (15) VERDICT: **** by Birmingham Mail (England)
Truth is stranger than fiction according to many people who have seen what happens around me and to them, on many occasions.
The Cat by Robert Bruce Baird / Arts and entertainment industries community
So goes the old joke, but truth is stranger than fiction sometimes, as Gravesend & Northfleet recently proved.
Who'd have thought it by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
 
 
 
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