After so many years, is this indeed a true tale?

Is there only one setting in which an author can tell true tales?

In many places it had come before them, poisoning the well for their own true tale.

But this time it is a true tale of my own that I must relate.

"I could get no tale out of him, true or false."

Let me tell you a true tale for once.

People usually get eloquent when telling their own stories, and true tales are always the most interesting.

The true tale, of course, is something much more humdrum.

The 9/11 report is a story first and last, an unbearably true tale some 585 pages long.

Her life story is a true tale of rags to riches.