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{{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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'''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
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Revision as of 23:03, 8 April 2015
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, Myth Busters
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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. —Dune
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