Line #2 Quotes/BellisariosMaxim


1	->''"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."''
2	-->--'''Literature/HuckleberryFinn intro'''[[note]]Of course, Creator/MarkTwain might be sarcastic (which was his signature style); Finn is probably his best work, especially the moral part[[/note]]
3
4	->''"Hughes' Zeroth Law of Geekhood states: "Never put more effort into analysing a creative work than its creator(s) put into creating it."''
5	-->--'''[[Website/ThingsOfInterest Sam Hughes]]''', [[http://qntm.org/timeline Futurama timeline]]; contrast MoffsLaw
6
7	->There are three ways of dealing with time travel in ''Series/DoctorWho'' (you might want to print this out for future use.)\
8	1. Look, it's just a story, time travel is completely impossible, the whole thing's a farrago of lies, ooh, look at those monsters.\
9	2. Time can only sometimes be rewritten, and the Doctor has a vast and terrible Time Brain that allows him to see when events can be altered and when they are fixed, but for us mere mortals, such insight would turn our brains to soup, ooh, look at those monsters.\
10	3. Ooh, look at those monsters!\
11	I like 3. It's quicker.
12	-->-- '''Creator/StevenMoffat''' [[http://community.livejournal.com/doctorwho/3085690.html expounds upon his theory of time travel.]]
13
14	->"...but still, if we are to believe the history of Literature/DonQuixote that has come out here lately with general applause, it is to be inferred from it, if I mistake not, that you never saw the lady Dulcinea, and that the said lady is nothing in the world but an imaginary lady, one that you yourself begot and gave birth to in your brain, and adorned with whatever charms and perfections you chose."''
15	->''"There is a good deal to be said on that point," said Don Quixote; "God knows whether there be any Dulcinea or not in the world, or whether she is imaginary or not imaginary; '''these are things the proof of which must not be pushed to extreme lengths.''' I have not begotten nor given birth to my lady, though I behold her as she needs must be, a lady who contains in herself all the qualities to make her famous throughout the world, beautiful without blemish, dignified without haughtiness, tender and yet modest, gracious from courtesy and courteous from good breeding, and lastly, of exalted lineage, because beauty shines forth and excels with a higher degree of perfection upon good blood than in the fair of lowly birth."
16	-->--''Literature/DonQuixote, Part II, Chapter XXXII''[[note]]Notice that Don Quixote himself, not Cervantes, formulates this law three hundred years before Belisario[[/note]]
17
18	->''“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”''
19	-->--'''Gregory Cromwell''' in ''Literature/WolfHall'' regarding ''Literature/HistoriaRegumBritanniae'' (and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall probably also Hilary Mantel regarding the novel]])
20
21	->''"You know, you really shouldn't think so hard about these things."''
22	-->--'''Uther Lightbringer''' in the ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'' tutorial back in V1.0, when Jim Raynor is trying to get a handle on the nonsensical premise he's found himself in.
23
24	->''"Yeah, don't pull at the plot thread too hard. It's a short trip to 'Wouldn't a radioactive spider just die?'"''
25	-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''' to '''ComicBook/SpiderMan''', ''ComicBook/SpiderManDeadpool'' #13
26
27	->''"I've just received a spiritual message from the developers: 'Don't think too hard about it. '"''
28	-->-- '''Thomas Edison''', ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''
29
30	->'''Salt:''' [[[PerfectSolutionFallacy Trying to answer as many questions at once]]] is not a good approach to theory-crafting. We're not going for a one-hundred-percent completion run here. We are trying to find the most likely possibilities based on the information we have. If we don't have the information, it's fine to speculate, but we don't need to [[CircularReasoning come up with an answer just to force it to work with our idea]]. (…) I really want to hammer this home: '''having an answer to every question becomes significantly less impressive if most of those answers are wrong'''. If I am filing my taxes, and I fill everything out, none of that is going to matter if all the information I put in was wrong. If anything, I'm ''more'' screwed than if I just left everything blank, because I can be arrested for committing tax fraud!\
31	'''Kooki:''' We're talking about Creator/TobyFox here, guys. The guy who routinely implements [[AuthorAvatar a reality-bending white dog]] as a savior whenever he writes himself into a corner. You really think we're going to get an answer to every possible detail? ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'''s whole setup is hypocritical, in that humans used magic to seal off all the monsters, because they could use magic and humans couldn't.[[note]]Some on-screen text makes a correction that this is not why humans sealed the monsters underground in ''Undertale'' canon, but reiterates that it is a reasonable assumption to expect the game's lore to have at least a few mild inconsistencies, particularly in the case of minor backstory details that do not impact its main plot.[[/note]] I sincerely doubt Toby gives a shit if his lore has holes in it as long as it provides a narratively satisfying chain of events.
32	-->-- [[https://youtu.be/MOPwmYdmba4 Collaboration video]] by '''[[https://www.youtube.com/@shadowhaxor99 ShadowHaxor99]]''' and '''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCGQYX-SZGvQP91zf_RkBg KookiAutumn]]''' meant to examine and debunk a specific ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' fan theory

Context Quotes / BellisariosMaxim