Reality Is Unrealistic/Quotes: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
(5 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance."''|Folklorist Linda Degh}}▼
▲{{quote|
{{quote|''"I didn't think it was very realistic in the movie and it turns out it's pretty realistic."''|'''Dwight Schrute''', [[The Office]], "Stress Relief"}}▼
|Folklorist Linda Degh}}
▲{{quote|
{{quote|''Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.''|Niels Bohr}}▼
|'''Dwight Schrute''', [[The Office]], "Stress Relief"}}
{{quote|''"Man, reality sucks!"''|'''The Cat''', ''[[Red Dwarf]]''}}▼
|'''Niels Bohr'''}}
{{quote|Man, reality sucks!
{{quote|''"Reality makes a ''[[Precision F-Strike|crappy]]'' special effects crew."''|Adam Savage, ''[[Myth Busters]]''}}▼
▲{{quote|
{{quote|''Truth of course must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.''|[[G. K. Chesterton]]}}▼
|Adam Savage, ''[[MythBusters]]''}}
▲{{quote|
|[[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]]''}}
{{quote|
|'''[[Discworld|Granny Weatherwax]]''', ''[[Wyrd Sisters]]''}}
{{quote|
|'''The Guide''' itself, ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''}}
|''[[Lord Byron's Don Juan|Don Juan]]'', [[Lord Byron]]}}
{{quote|
▲{{quote|''[[Shaped Like Itself|Things that try to look like things often look more like things than things]]. Well-known fact.''|'''[[Discworld|Granny Weatherwax]]''', ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]''}}
|''[[Aristotle]]'', ''[[Poetics]]''}}
▲{{quote|''The [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Guide]] is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.''|'''The Guide''' itself, ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''}}
|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe }}
{{quote|That's the difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
▲{{quote|'''Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange;''
|''[[The International]]''}}
▲''Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,''|''[[Lord Byron's Don Juan|Don Juan]]'', [[Lord Byron]]}}
{{quote|Do you want to know the greatest and also the worst device that humans ever invented?
▲{{quote|''A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it.''|[[Aristotle]], '''[[Poetics]]'''}}
'''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]]' }}
{{quote|
▲{{quote|''"Few people have the imagination for reality."''|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe }}
|'''Alex''', ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''}}
{{quote|
{{quote|
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.
▲{{quote|''It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.''|'''Alex''', ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''}}
But the real universe is one step beyond logic.
|From "The sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan|''[[Dune]]''}}
{{quote|''"These days we have become all too desensitised to violence on paper and on screen: real life violence is not ‘Schwarzenegger violence’, it does not have a certificate or a schedule; it is protracted, unglamorous, long-lasting and ruthless."''|'''Lysander'''|''[https://heathenharvest.org/2012/03/17/peter-sotos-buyers-market/ Review of Buyer's Market by Peter Sotos]''}}
▲{{quote|''The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.''|'''Tom Wolfe''', ''[http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/12/29/advice-to-writers/ Advice to Writers]''}}
{{quote|The problem is you can’t always write aliens. You can’t always write fairies. And I didn’t feel qualified to write Americans. And there’s only so many people without a past you can write. (I was hit over the head, I swear. I remember nothing but two minutes in the past.)
▲{{quote|''For example, few novels contain plot twists like the ones in the news story about a band of thieves posing as police officers who were forced by circumstances to try to arrest a group of policemen disguised as a gang of thieves. 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''}}
I decided to [[Write What You Know|do the sensible thing and write stories set in Portugal and/or with Portuguese characters]]. It did not go WELL.
The BEST response I got (it was personal!) was a rejection informing me I was a narrowminded pain, who clearly had never been outside the US (this, btw, for a story I didn’t think was in ANY WAY critical of Portugal. Yeah, there are things that drive me nuts about the place, but I also love many of those things. Kind of like you’ll love the way your kid always looks scruffy. I thought that was clear in the story. The thing this person objected to? [[Aluminum Christmas Trees|The fact that no one refrigerated anything]] and the fact that TO THEM the place sounded icky.)
[...]
That is, to write about Portugal, I had to know enough about the US to know at least [[Theme Park Version|what was LIKELY to be in the editor’s head when the word Portugal was said]]. I had to know what they expected.
| ''[https://accordingtohoyt.com/2011/06/16/betraying-a-little/ Betraying A Little]'' by '''Sarah A. Hoyt''' }}
{{tropesubpagefooter}}
|
Latest revision as of 22:39, 24 October 2023
Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance. —Folklorist Linda Degh
|
I didn't think it was very realistic in the movie and it turns out it's pretty realistic. —Dwight Schrute, The Office, "Stress Relief"
|
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. —Niels Bohr
|
Man, reality sucks! —The Cat, Red Dwarf
|
Reality makes a crappy special effects crew. —Adam Savage, MythBusters
|
Truth of course must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. |
House: I was not wrong. Everything I said was true. It fit. It was elegant. |
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. —The Guide itself, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
|
'Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange; |
Few people have the imagination for reality. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
|
That's the difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense. |
Do you want to know the greatest and also the worst device that humans ever invented? —Dr. Londes, Cowboy Bebop'
|
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. —Alex, A Clockwork Orange
|
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. —Tom Wolfe, Advice to Writers
|
For example, few novels contain plot twists like the ones in the news story about a band of thieves posing as police officers who were forced by circumstances to try to arrest a group of policemen disguised as a gang of thieves. —W. Lance Bennet, News: The Politics of Illusion
|
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. —From "The sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan, Dune
|
"These days we have become all too desensitised to violence on paper and on screen: real life violence is not ‘Schwarzenegger violence’, it does not have a certificate or a schedule; it is protracted, unglamorous, long-lasting and ruthless."
—Lysander, Review of Buyer's Market by Peter Sotos
|
The problem is you can’t always write aliens. You can’t always write fairies. And I didn’t feel qualified to write Americans. And there’s only so many people without a past you can write. (I was hit over the head, I swear. I remember nothing but two minutes in the past.) — Betraying A Little by Sarah A. Hoyt
|
- Back to Reality Is Unrealistic