Quote
By Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Source
- Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, 1897 · Chapter XV epigraph, p. 156
- Read at
- Internet Archive (University of North Carolina scan of the 1897 first edition, Hartford: American Publishing Co.)
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From Mark Twain's travel book Following the Equator (Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1897), where each chapter opens with a saying from "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar," a notebook kept by a character Twain wrote. The sayings are Twain's own writing.