Mark Twain Quotes

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

Life [had] replaced logic.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

It is certain because it is impossible.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

No sense makes sense.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

The tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart

I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert.