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{{quote|Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance.
|Folklorist Linda Degh}}
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{{quote|Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
|'''Niels Bohr'''}}
{{quote|Man, reality sucks!
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{{quote|Reality makes a ''[[Precision F-Strike|crappy]]'' special effects crew.
|Adam Savage, ''[[
{{quote|Truth of course must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
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{{quote|[[Shaped Like Itself|Things that try to look like things often look more like things than things]]. Well-known fact.
|'''[[Discworld|Granny Weatherwax]]''', ''[[
{{quote|The [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Guide]] is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
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{{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]]'',
{{quote|Few people have the imagination for 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.
|{{spoiler|''Dr. Londes''}}, ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]' }}
{{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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{{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.
{{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 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.)
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.)
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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.
| ''[https://accordingtohoyt.com/2011/06/16/betraying-a-little/ Betraying A Little]'' by '''Sarah A. Hoyt''' }}
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