Truth is stranger than fiction

There is general tendency to read fictions (novels and short stories) in order to find thrills
and excitement and thus to relieve the boredom of life. It is not realized by one that truth
or actual accidents of life proved more excitement and thrills than even fiction.
We read stories of crime and detection because we feel the need of sensation. But crimes
actually committed and manner of their investigation are even more sensational than
fictional crimes and their detection. In ingenuity, in planning and in brutality actual
crimes surpass the fictional crimes.
Matricide, patricide, fratricide, infanticide, homicide, and suicide al are reported by news
papers and the accounts of these are hair-rising. Bank hold-ups, highway robberies,
smugglings, abductions, kidnappings, criminal assaults on woman, and rape these and
similar other outrages as reported by news paper are more sensational and fascinating that
the fictional fare served by story writers.
The amorous and sexual adventures of Christine Keeler were found to be stranger and
more interesting then those of Madam Bovary. The dramatic rescue of hostages by Israeli
commandos at Entebbe airport was more astonishing and thrilling than any fictional
episode of the same kind.
The assassination of former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto shaheed was
more breathtaking, sensational, and baffling than anything in fiction. Indeed, real life
offers stranger things than the imagination of a story writer can invent