Fiction (n.) is differentiated from reality in that fiction needs to be credible.
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Fiction (n.) is obliged to stick to possibilities while truth isn't.
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Fiction (n.) is less strange than truth because with fiction, things have to make sense.
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Fiction (n.) is less strange than truth only because fiction, unlike truth, is obliged to stick to possibilities.
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Fiction (n.) is shamed, in its cheap inventions, by the experiences of an eventful life.