All fiction boils down to two plots: Either a stranger comes to town or someone goes on a trip.
– Parker Bauer
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- History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. – AE Samaan
- It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. – Mark Twain
- Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t. – Neil Gaiman
- Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird. – Erik Meyer
- Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them. – Walter Farley
- A town without a book shop was a town without a heart – Veronica Henry
- If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town – William Faulkner
- Aniimal Town:~) The place where Dreams & Adventures come true! – Aniimal Town
- Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be – Ta Obreht
- You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle. – Gregory Maguire
- Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes. – Sanjo Jendayi
- Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop-¦suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head. – Agatha Christie
- As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. – John Paul II
- Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. – Werner Heisenberg
- The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. – John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
- Talk to strangers politely… Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend. – Israelmore Ayivor
- You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history – Iain Banks
- Security comes from Trust.Trust comes from Faith.Faith comes when you eliminate all fear.Ease comes when you are fearless. – Brownell Landrum
- This is only a work of fiction , The Truth as always will be far stranger – Arthur C Clarke
- Too many words for one book–truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. – David Benioff
- I love when truth is stranger than fiction. It authenticates my wild imagination. – Joseph DiFrancesco
- I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction – Marcus Chown
- I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger. – Doug Cooper
- Revenge of the Giant Grill Man. – Joan Bauer
- My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn’t have any excuse to be stupid. – Joan Bauer
- Woe unto you when all men speak well of you. – Joan Bauer
- The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers. – Susan Wise Bauer
- I wish for magic this season,laughter and fun.I wish for mistletoe kisses-those sparkly ones. – Cheri Bauer
- a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter. – Joan Bauer
- Now I see that it isn’t the problems along the way that make us or break us. It’s how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference. – Joan Bauer
- Folly plots a fool’s death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences. – Ziad K Abdelnour
- A bad friend secretly plots your downfall – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Satan didn’t lose any of his beguiling ways when he became the fallen prince. He took his charm, his subtleties, and his clever plots to use on us. – Billy Graham
- We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence. – Sunday Adelaja
- Life plots elegantly. – Alice Randall
- He who plots revenge must dig two graves. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- He had no big plan for this. He had not prepared for the day when he would be fighting his own work. He had not plotted against his own plots. – Dean F Wilson
- Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing. – Haruki Murakami