When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
“When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.”
“The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.”