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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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{{quote|Man, reality sucks! |
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|Adam Savage, ''[[MythBusters]]''}} |
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|[[G. K. Chesterton]]}} |
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|''[[House (TV series)|House]]''}} |
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|'''[[Discworld|Granny Weatherwax]]''', ''[[Wyrd Sisters]]''}} |
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|'''The Guide''' itself, ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''}} |
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Stranger than fiction; if it could be told, |
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{{quote|''You call this reality? My VIDEO GAMES are more realistic!''|[[Tropers/Stong Radd|Stong Radd]]}} |
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|''[[Aristotle]]'', ''[[Poetics]]''}} |
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{{quote|Few people have the imagination for reality. |
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|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe }} |
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{{quote|That's the difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense. |
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|''[[The International]]''}} |
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{{quote|Do you want to know the greatest and also the worst device that humans ever invented? |
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'''It's television.''' |
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Television controls people by bombarding them with information until they lose their sense of reality. |
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Television has created a people who believe instantly in dramatic fantasies who can be controlled by little dots of light. |
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|{{spoiler|''Dr. Londes''}}, ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]' }} |
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{{quote|It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. |
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|'''Alex''', ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''}} |
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{{quote|The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. |
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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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{{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. |
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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. |
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|'''W. Lance Bennet''', ''News: The Politics of Illusion''}} |
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{{quote|Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. |
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But the real universe is one step beyond logic. |
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[[Category:Reality Is Unrealistic]] |
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|From "The sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan|''[[Dune]]''}} |
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{{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]''}} |
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{{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.) |
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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. |
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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.) |
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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. |
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| ''[https://accordingtohoyt.com/2011/06/16/betraying-a-little/ Betraying A Little]'' by '''Sarah A. Hoyt''' }} |
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Latest revision as of 22:39, 24 October 2023
Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance. —Folklorist Linda Degh
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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"
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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. —Niels Bohr
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Man, reality sucks! —The Cat, Red Dwarf
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Reality makes a crappy special effects crew. —Adam Savage, MythBusters
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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
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'Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange; |
Few people have the imagination for reality. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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'
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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
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The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. —Tom Wolfe, Advice to Writers
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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