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"Fiction has to make sense, reality can do whatever it wants."
by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
"Fiction has to make sense, reality can do whatever it wants."
- lostlogin 4y agoYou sound like someone who has witnessed the last 5 years.
- NaturalPhallacy 4y agoThe idea is a bit older than that: Clancy here expresses an idea evoked in similar statements made by others, all derived from the orignial made by Lord Byron: Lord Byron: Truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. Mark Twain: Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn't. G. K. Chesterton: Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. Leo Rosten: Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. (attributed) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy#Larry_King_Live_(2000) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy#Larry_King_Live_(20...