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{{quote|Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance. |
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|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. |
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|'''Dwight Schrute''', [[The Office]], "Stress Relief"}} |
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{{quote|Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. |
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|Niels Bohr}} |
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{{quote|Man, reality sucks! |
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|'''The Cat''', ''[[Red Dwarf]]''}} |
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{{quote|Reality makes a ''[[Precision F-Strike|crappy]]'' special effects crew. |
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|Adam Savage, ''[[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. |
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|[[G. K. Chesterton]]}} |
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{{quote|'''House:''' I was not wrong. Everything I said was true. It fit. It was elegant. |
{{quote|'''House:''' I was not wrong. Everything I said was true. It fit. It was elegant. |
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'''Dr. Wilson:''' So reality was wrong? |
'''Dr. Wilson:''' So reality was wrong? |
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'''House''': Reality is almost always wrong. |
'''House''': Reality is almost always wrong. |
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|''[[House (TV series)|House]]''}} |
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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. |
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|'''[[Discworld|Granny Weatherwax]]''', ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]''}} |
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{{quote|The [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Guide]] is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. |
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|'''The Guide''' itself, ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''}} |
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{{quote|'Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange; |
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Stranger than fiction; if it could be told, |
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|''[[Lord Byron's Don Juan|Don Juan]]'', [[Lord Byron]]}} |
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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. |
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|[[Aristotle]], '''[[Poetics]]'''}} |
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{{quote|Few people have the imagination for reality. |
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|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe }} |
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{{quote|That's the difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense. |
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|''[[The International]]''}} |
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{{quote|Do you want to know the greatest and also the worst device that humans ever invented? |
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'''It's television.''' |
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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. |
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|{{spoiler|''Dr. Londes''}}, [[Cowboy Bebop]] }} |
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{{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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|'''Alex''', ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''}} |
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{{quote|The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. |
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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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{{quote|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. |
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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. |
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|'''W. Lance Bennet''', ''News: The Politics of Illusion''}} |
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{{quote|Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. |
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But the real universe is one step beyond logic. |
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- From "The sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan |
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|''[[Dune]]''}} |
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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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