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{{quote|Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

|Niels Bohr}}

|'''Niels Bohr'''}}

{{quote|Man, reality sucks!

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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]], '''[[Poetics]]'''}}

|''[[Aristotle]]'', ''[[Poetics]]''}}

{{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]] }}

|{{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.

- From "The sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan|''[[Dune]]''}}

|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 do the sensible thing and write stories set in Portugal and/or with Portuguese characters. It did not go WELL.

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? The fact that no one refrigerated anything and the fact that TO THEM the place sounded icky.)

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.