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To: PUGACHEV; marktwain
They're just too unlikely to be true, or, as you namesake put it, "Truth is stranger than Fiction, because it's obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

Did Mark Twain say that? Source please? Someone else I read attributed it to Montaigne. Couldn't find it in Essays. Thanks.

60 posted on 06/21/2017 7:04:12 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4650-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction-but-it-is-because-fiction

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) did write it.


61 posted on 06/21/2017 7:21:55 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: thecodont
According to Goodreads (via Google) it's from MT's Following the Equator; A Trip Around the World, although I haven't read it myself.
65 posted on 06/22/2017 5:07:30 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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