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


{{quote|''"Man, reality sucks!"''|'''The Cat''', ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]''}}
{{quote|''"Man, reality sucks!"''|'''The Cat''', ''[[Red Dwarf]]''}}


{{quote|''"Reality makes a ''[[Precision F-Strike|crappy]]'' special effects crew."''|Adam Savage, ''[[Myth Busters (TV)|Myth Busters]]''}}
{{quote|''"Reality makes a ''[[Precision F-Strike|crappy]]'' special effects crew."''|Adam Savage, ''[[Myth Busters]]''}}


{{quote|''Truth of course must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.''|[[GK Chesterton]]}}
{{quote|''Truth of course must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.''|[[G. K. Chesterton]]}}


{{quote|'''House:''' I was not wrong. Everything I said was true. It fit. It was elegant.<br />
{{quote|'''House:''' I was not wrong. Everything I said was true. It fit. It was elegant.<br />
'''Dr. Wilson:''' So reality was wrong?<br />
'''Dr. Wilson:''' So reality was wrong?<br />
'''House''': Reality is almost always wrong.|''[[House (TV)|House]]''}}
'''House''': Reality is almost always wrong.|''[[House (TV series)|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]]''}}
{{quote|''[[Shaped Like Itself|Things that try to look like things often look more like things than things]]. Well-known fact.''|'''[[Discworld|Granny Weatherwax]]''', ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]''}}


{{quote|''The [[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy|Guide]] is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.''|'''The Guide''' itself, ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]''}}
{{quote|''The [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Guide]] is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.''|'''The Guide''' itself, ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''}}


{{quote|'''Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange;''<br />
{{quote|'''Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange;''<br />
''Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,''|''[[Lord Byrons Don Juan|Don Juan]]'', [[Lord Byron]]}}
''Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,''|''[[Lord Byron's 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]]'''}}
{{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]]'''}}


{{quote|''You call this reality? My VIDEO GAMES are more realistic!''|[[Tropers/Stong Radd|Stong Radd]]}}
{{quote|''You call this reality? My VIDEO GAMES are more realistic!''|[[Tropers/Stong Radd|Stong Radd]]}}
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{{quote|''"That's the difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense."''|''[[The International]]''}}
{{quote|''"That's the difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense."''|''[[The International]]''}}


{{quote|''"Do you want to know the greatest and also the worst device that humans ever invented?'' '''''It's television.''''' ''Television controls people by bombarding them with information until they lose their sense of reality.'' '''[snip]''' ''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 (Anime)|Cowboy Bebop]] }}
{{quote|''"Do you want to know the greatest and also the worst device that humans ever invented?'' '''''It's television.''''' ''Television controls people by bombarding them with information until they lose their sense of reality.'' '''[snip]''' ''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.''|'''Alex''', ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Literature)|A Clockwork Orange]]''}}
{{quote|''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 (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''}}


{{quote|''The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.''|'''Tom Wolfe''', ''[http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/12/29/advice-to-writers/ Advice to Writers]''}}
{{quote|''The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.''|'''Tom Wolfe''', ''[http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/12/29/advice-to-writers/ Advice to Writers]''}}