truth is stranger than fiction

Proverb

Sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones.

Japanese Meaning

実際に起こった出来事は、想像で作られた物語よりも奇妙な事象が生じることがある。 / 真実はフィクション（創作物）よりも、予測不可能かつ信じがたい場合がある。

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

ことわざにあるように、真実は小説より奇なり。先週起きた奇妙な一連の出来事が、それを疑いなく証明しました。

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Sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones.

It has often been said that truth is stranger than fiction. But what writer of the most extravagant fiction could have thought up such a life as that of William Kiffin? A poor orphan becoming one of the wealthiest merchants in the country; […]

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