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{{quote|''"Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance."''|Folklorist Linda Degh}}▼
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{{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}}
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{{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 (TV)|Red Dwarf]]''}}▼
|'''Niels Bohr'''}}
{{quote|Man, reality sucks!
{{quote|''"Reality makes a ''[[Precision F-Strike|crappy]]'' special effects crew."''|Adam Savage, ''[[Myth Busters (TV)|Myth Busters]]''}}▼
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{{quote|''Truth of course must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.''|[[GK Chesterton]]}}▼
|Adam Savage, ''[[MythBusters]]''}}
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{{quote|'''House:''' I was not wrong. Everything I said was true. It fit. It was elegant.<br />▼
|[[G. K. Chesterton]]}}
'''Dr. Wilson:''' So reality was wrong?<br />▼
'''House''': Reality is almost always wrong.|''[[House (TV)|House]]''}}▼
{{quote|''[[Shaped Like Itself|Things that try to look like things often look more like things than things]]. Well-known fact.''|'''[[Discworld (Literature)|Granny Weatherwax]]''', ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]''}}▼
|''[[House (TV series)|House]]''}}
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{{quote|''The [[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy|Guide]] is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.''|'''The Guide''' itself, ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]''}}▼
|'''[[Discworld|Granny Weatherwax]]''', ''[[Wyrd Sisters]]''}}
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{{quote|'''Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange;''<br />▼
|'''The Guide''' itself, ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''}}
''Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,''|''[[Lord Byrons Don Juan|Don Juan]]'', [[Lord Byron]]}}▼
{{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 (Creator)|Aristotle]], '''[[Poetics (Literature)|Poetics]]'''}}▼
Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,
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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.
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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]]' }}
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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]]''}}
{{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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