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|Folklorist Linda Degh}}
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|'''Dwight Schrute''', [[The Office]], "Stress Relief"}}
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|Niels Bohr}}
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|'''The Cat''', ''[[Red Dwarf]]''}}
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|Adam Savage, ''[[Myth Busters]]''}}
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|[[G. K. Chesterton]]}}
{{quote|'''House:''' I was not wrong. Everything I said was true. It fit. It was elegant.
'''Dr. Wilson:''' So reality was wrong?
'''House''': Reality is almost always wrong.
|''[[House (TV series)|House]]''}}
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|'''[[Discworld|Granny Weatherwax]]''', ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]''}}
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|'''The Guide''' itself, ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''}}
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|''[[Lord Byron's Don Juan|Don Juan]]'', [[Lord Byron]]}}
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|[[Aristotle]], '''[[Poetics]]'''}}
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|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe }}
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|''[[The International]]''}}
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'''It's television.'''
Television controls people by bombarding them with information until they lose their sense of reality.
[...]
Television has created a people who believe instantly in dramatic fantasies who can be controlled by little dots of light.
|{{spoiler|''Dr. Londes''}}, [[Cowboy Bebop]] }}
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|'''Alex''', ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''}}
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|'''Tom Wolfe''', ''[http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/12/29/advice-to-writers/ Advice to Writers]''}}
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The real police were — you guessed it — on the trail of the thieves who were posing as police. If a novelist were to submit such a plot to a publisher, it would probably be rejected as incredible or unrealistic.
|'''W. Lance Bennet''', ''News: The Politics of Illusion''}}
{{quote|Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense.
But the real universe is one step beyond logic.
- From "The sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
|''[[Dune]]''}}
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