History Quotes / RealityIsUnRealistic

-->'''Katie Rife'', ''[[https://film.avclub.com/red-death-white-house-a-roger-corman-vincent-price-cl-1845278267?utm_campaign=TheAVClub&utm_content=1602084286&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=twitter Red Death, White House]]''

->And then there's the criticism that the film is melodramatic, which I also find odd because the melodrama of the situation is why we remember the ''Titanic'' disaster at all. It was the largest moving object in the world built by human hands at the time as well as the apex of Edwardian glamor, it was to be the captain's last voyage before he retired, and the ship sank on its maiden voyage. Any publisher would throw that concept out for being ''way'' too over-the-top if it had not actually happened. It is a fundamentally melodramatic historical event, so there's not really anything tonally off about having a "big emotions" romantic epic on board the ship right before it sinks.

->And then there's the criticism that the film is melodramatic, which I also find odd because the melodrama of the situation is why we remember the ''Titanic'' disaster at all. It was the largest moving object in the world built by human hands at the time as well as the apex of Edwardian glamor, it was to be the captain's last voyage before he retired, and the ship sank on its maiden voyage. Any publisher would throw that concept out for being ''way'' too over-the-top if it had not actually happened.

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-> ''"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as improbable fiction."''
-->-- ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'', '''Act III, Scene 4'''

->''"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t."''
-->-- '''Creator/MarkTwain'''

->''"Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance."''
-->--'''Linda Degh''' (folklorist)

->''"I didn't think it was very realistic in the movie and it turns out it's pretty realistic."''
-->-- '''Dwight Schrute''', ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'', "Stress Relief"

->''"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."''
-->-- '''Niels Bohr'''

->''"Man, reality sucks!"''
-->-- '''The Cat''', ''Series/RedDwarf''

->''"Reality makes a ''[[PrecisionFStrike crappy]]'' special effects crew."''
-->-- '''Adam Savage''', ''Series/MythBusters''

->''Truth of course must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.''
-->-- '''Creator/GKChesterton'''

->'''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.
-->-- ''Series/{{House}}''

->''"You call this reality? My VIDEO GAMES are more realistic!"''
-->-- '''Tropers/StongRadd'''

->''"Few people have the imagination for reality."''
-->-- '''Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe'''

->''"That's the difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense."''
-->-- ''Film/TheInternational''

->''"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''']], ''Anime/CowboyBebop''

->''"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]]''

->''"If I saw this in a Creator/DavidLynch movie, I would say, like, "Alright, David Lynch is trying way too hard. Now he's like, making up stuff, that, this is too weird."''
-->-- '''Rich Shertenlieb''' from ''The Toucher and Rich Radio Show'' on '''[[WebComic/{{Sonichu}} Christian Weston Chandler]]'''

->''"The buildings that you see in a model railroad layout are not only interesting to look at, in many ways they look more like the real thing than the real thing does. A model factory looks more like a factory than a real factory does, because the modeler abstracted out the irrelevant bits, and amplified what makes it unique."''
-->-- '''Ocean Quigley''', ''VideoGame/SimCity 5 Blog''

->''"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."''
-->-- '''Creator/TomClancy'''

->''"Important point: just because it has happened in real life does not make it believable in a story. If a reader says she didn’t believe such a thing would happen, it is no defence for you to say, "Oh, but that did happen! In 1982 I was walking along..."''
-->-- '''Nicola Morgan''', ''Write To Be Published''

->''"Really, if I was writing a piece of fiction this plot line would be rejected as implausible."''
-->-- '''Broomstick''' [[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=159675&start=100#p3826158 commenting on her legal issues]], Website/StarDestroyerDotNet

->''(The kids watch the film's prop department paint black patches on a brown horse with fake horns and udder)''\\
'''Martin:''' Uh, sir... why don't you use ''real'' cows?\\
'''Prop Guy:''' Cows don't look like cows on film. We gotta use horses.\\
'''Ralph:''' What do you do if you want something that looks like a horse?\\
'''Prop Guy:''' Eh, usually we just tape a buncha cats t'gether.
-->-- "Radioactive Man", ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

->''"Deschamps-Braly has found that trans men are much less concerned with acquiring an Adam’s apple than trans women are with getting rid of one. Nevertheless, he and Ousterhout jointly developed a procedure for building a new Adam’s apple for trans men. In a detail that even a Hollywood scriptwriter [[ContrivedCoincidence might deem too much]], it is made from cartilage [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic extracted from]] [[Literature/BookOfGenesis the patient’s rib]]."''
-->--'''[[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/the-story-of-a-trans-womans-face The New Yorker]]''', on facial reconstruction surgery for [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} transgender]] women

-->-- '''[[Webcomic/DumbingOfAge David Willis]]''' on reader reactions to [[http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/stepmachine/ this strip]].

->''"I bought half a shelf of books on Ancient Egypt, and after a while I decided to make things up, because when you got down to details the real thing was just too weird."''
-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''The Folklore of Discworld'', on the process of writing ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}''.

->''"It was absolutely astounding, and if [[OlderThanTheyThink I had seen it on a cinematograph film]] I should have sworn that it was faked! "''
-->-- '''Sir Edward Hulse''' on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce#Christmas_1914 Christmas Truces]] of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI

->''"He'd write a book about his experiences, if he thought anyone would believe it"''
-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', "about the author" section, several Discworld books.

-> ''>the main villain is named [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]].\\
>his right hand's name is [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Himmler]].\\
Obviously, [[TabletopRPG the DM]] makes the names on the fly.''
-->-- Anonymous post on [=4chan=] /tg/ board

->''" It was absolutely astounding, and if [[OlderThanTheyThink I had seen it on a cinematograph film]] I should have sworn that it was faked! "''

-->-- '''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Granny Weatherwax]]''', ''Discworld/WyrdSisters''

-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''The Folklore of Discworld'', on the process of writing ''Discworld/{{Pyramids}}''.

-->-- '''''Theatre/TwelfthNight'', Act III, Scene 4'''

-->-- '''Niels Bohr''

-->-- [[spoiler:''Dr. Londes'']], Anime/CowboyBebop

-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Xkcd}}'', [[https://www.xkcd.com/2115/ "Plutonium"]]

-->-- '''Creator/JonStewart''', ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart'', on Sen. Bernie Sanders getting ridiculed or snubbed by news outlets during the 2016 election season.

-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', "about the author" section, several Discworld books.

->''"Deschamps-Braly has found that trans men are much less concerned with acquiring an Adam’s apple than trans women are with getting rid of one. Nevertheless, he and Ousterhout jointly developed a procedure for building a new Adam’s apple for trans men. In a detail that even a Hollywood scriptwriter [[RealityIsUnrealistic might deem too much]], it is made from cartilage [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic extracted from]] [[Literature/BookOfGenesis the patient’s rib]]."''

-->-- '''Rich Shertenlieb''' from ''The Toucher and Rich Radio Show'' on [[WebComic/{{Sonichu}} Christian Weston Chandler]]'''

->''"Reality is often stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be believable."''

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-->-- '''Dwight Schrute''', ''Series/TheOffice'', "Stress Relief"

-->--'''[[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/the-story-of-a-trans-womans-face The New Yorker]]''', on facial reconstruction surgery for [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}}]] women

->''"The problem here ''isn't''' that Bernie Sanders is a crazy-pants cuckoo bird. It's that we've all become so accustomed to [[SlaveToPR stage-managed, focus group-driven candidates]] that authenticity comes across as lunacy."''

--> -- '''''Theatre/TwelfthNight'', Act III, Scene 4'''

-->--Mark Twain

-->-- '''Dwight Schrute''', TheOffice, "Stress Relief"

->''Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.''
-->-- Niels Bohr

-> ''"The Guide is definitive. Reality is often inaccurate."''
-->--''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''

-->-- Adam Savage, ''Series/MythBusters''

-->-- Creator/GKChesterton

->''[[ShapedLikeItself Things that try to look like things often look more like things than things]]. Well-known fact.''

->'''Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange;''\\
''Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,''

->''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.''
-->-- Creator/{{Aristotle}}, '''Literature/{{Poetics}}'''

->''You call this reality? My VIDEO GAMES are more realistic!''
-->-- Tropers/StongRadd

-->-- Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe

->''It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.''

->''The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.''

->''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. 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''

->''The buildings that you see in a model railroad layout are not only interesting to look at, in many ways they look more like the real thing than the real thing does. A model factory looks more like a factory than a real factory does, because the modeler abstracted out the irrelevant bits, and amplified what makes it unique.''
-->--'''Ocean Quigley''', ''VideoGame/SimCity 5 Blog''

-->--'''Leigh Michaels''', ''On Writing Romance''

->''Important point: just because it has happened in real life does not make it believable in a story. If a reader says she didn’t believe such a thing would happen, it is no defence for you to say, "Oh, but that did happen! In 1982 I was walking along..."''

-> ''"Really, if I was writing a piece of fiction this plot line would be rejected as implausible."''
--> -- '''Broomstick''' [[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=159675&start=100#p3826158 commenting on her legal issues]], Website/StarDestroyerDotNet

->'''Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange;''
->''Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,''

->'''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.

->''(The kids watch the film's prop department paint black patches on a brown horse with fake horns and udder)''
->'''Martin:''' Uh, sir... why don't you use ''real'' cows?
->'''Prop Guy:''' Cows don't look like cows on film. We gotta use horses.
->'''Ralph:''' What do you do if you want something that looks like a horse?
->'''Prop Guy:''' Eh, usually we just tape a buncha cats t'gether.

->(The kids watch the film's prop department paint black patches on a brown horse with fake horns and udder)\\
'''Martin:''' Uh, sir... why don't you use ''real'' cows?\\
'''Prop Guy:''' Cows don't look like cows on film. We gotta use horses.\\
'''Ralph:''' What do you do if you want something that looks like a horse?\\
'''Prop Guy:''' Eh, usually we just tape a buncha cats t'gether.

'''Ralph: What do you do if you want something that looks like a horse?\\