Line #38 Quotes/UnreliableNarrator


1	->''"Kids, you may be wondering how many of these stories I'm telling you are actually true. It's a fair question. After all, there's a fine line between a great story and a bald-faced lie."''
2	-->-- '''Future Ted''', ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E19ZooOrFalse Zoo or False]]"
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4	->''There are three sides to every story: my side, your side and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.''
5	-->-- '''Robert Evans''', ''The Kid Stays In the Picture''
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7	->''"I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth."''
8	-->-- '''Tim O'Brien''', ''Literature/TheThingsTheyCarried''
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10	->''It's my job to tell it like it is...or was... or whatever!''
11	-->-- '''Alan-a-Dale''', ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973''
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13	->''"The story is told - though who can say if it be true..."''
14	-->-- '''Shari''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''
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16	->''"I wasn't really paying much attention to what anyone was saying at this part, but I'm pretty sure I can guess."''
17	-->-- '''Rocket Raccoon''' narrating the events of ''What If: infinity: Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' (what follows is every character repeating their catchphrase and Star-Lord going on about daddy issues for two pages in the middle of a fight)
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19	->"''So you lie to yourself to be happy. There's nothing wrong with that -- we all do it! Who cares if there are a few details you'd rather not remember?''"
20	-->-- '''Teddy''', ''Film/{{Memento}}''
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22	->'''Jeremy:''' ''[voiceover]'' We'd only gone a few miles before Richard and James ''completely'' changed their minds, and realised that [[TheAllegedCar the Excellent]] was the best car they'd ever been in!\
23	'''Richard:''' No, we haven't! Stop saying things in voiceover that aren't true!
24	-->-- ''Series/TheGrandTour'', S1:E9, "Burks to the Future"
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26	->''"Stanley was fat and ugly and really, really stupid. He probably only got his job because of a family connection; that's how stupid he is. That, or with drug money. Also Stanley is addicted to drugs and hookers."''
27	-->-- '''The Narrator''', [[OffTheRails if you tick him off enough,]] ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable''
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29	-> '''Battler''':At the end of the 1st game, it was revealed that this story was passed on to people in the future by that message bottle.\
30	......Someone had written about this crime...this tale.\
31	In other words, ......this tale is all part of a world that includes the personal opinions of an observer, namely, the person who wrote the message in a bottle.\
32	In other words the observer isn't God. It's a human.\
33	Therefore, there's no guarantee that this description is truly impartial.\
34	By the end of the first game, it had already been made clear that we had broken the constant premise of the mystery genre: that the story itself must be seen though the eyes of God.
35	-->-- ''[[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry End of the Golden Witch]]'', "????"
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37	->''"A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth."''
38	-->-- '''Barney Stinson''', ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''
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40	->''[[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Arnold]] had no idea what the hell was going on in [[Film/TotalRecall1990 this movie]]. His memories were fake, he was his own bad guy, and not a single line of this screenplay involved a character telling the truth. But after his evil wife punched him in the balls and then kicked him in the balls, Arnold was sure about one thing: he's going to shoot this god damn lady in the head.''
41	-->-- '''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''', [[http://www.break.com/article/the-12-best-arnold-kills-out-of-all-509-2554063 "The 12 Best Arnold Kills (Out of 509)"]]
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43	->'''Tenebrae''': I was bleeding, tired, and the dagger was just out of my reach, and there, lumbering towards me, was the biggest ogre I'd ever seen. Twelve foot tall, [...] with tusks as big as my arm.\
44	'''Skulduggery''': He was half that size. And he didn't have tusks, he just had really bad teeth. Also, he wasn't an ogre. His name was Jeremy.
45	-->-- ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant''
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47	->''This tale shall be like Tiam herself, a creature of many heads. It is in my nature to wear masks, and to speak in a multitude of voices through lips not my own. Even when I had sight, to see through a single pair of eyes was a kind of torture, for I knew – I could feel in my soul – that we with our single visions miss most of the world. We cannot help it. It is our barrier to understanding. Perhaps it is only the poets who truly resent this way of being. No matter; what I do not recall I shall invent.''
48	-->-- '''Gallan''', ''Forge Of Darkness''
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50	->“''She says I'm only tellin' half of it''
51	->''That's probably 'cause there's only half worth tellin'''”
52	-->-- {{Music/Nickelback}}, "Do This Anymore"
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54	->A while ago in fiction the unreliable narrator was all the rage. The fixed and to be trusted storyteller of the Victorian novel had been replaced by the dodgy fabulist, con-man, cheat and perjurer. The authorial voice became instead another character, slippery, evasive, as likely to be the hand that struck the blow as any other member of the cast - butler, angry lover, resentful son.
55	->Let me reassure you, [[ObliviousToHisOwnDescription you can rely on me]], I am no jive turkey fabler, no fabricator of misleading tricks, I'm doing my best to tell it to you straight and only if I do so can there be any hope for me.
56	-->--''The Golden Age Of Censorship,'' by Paul Hoffman
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58	->My great merit as a historian is that I am known to be insane. No court or council can trust my testimony, and each reader may pick and choose what to believe, dismissing anything too unsettling as lunacy. I gave the public what it wanted of the truth, no more, leaving the pundits and propagandists free to shape opinion into faction, and faction into sides and enemies.
59	-->-- '''Mycroft Canner''', ''Literature/TerraIgnota''
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61	->Nobody in this comic is a reliable narrator, not even {{God}}, who tells you this directly.
62	-->-- '''Abbadon''' author of ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''
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64	->'''Janis''': It's a [[MoralityBallad cautionary tale]] of fear and lust and pride/[[BasedOnATrueStory Based on actual events]] where people DIED\
65	'''Damian''': No one died.
66	-->-- ''Theatre/MeanGirls''
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68	->"so, are you a straight shooter or an unreliable narrator? which is it?"\
69	"both. [[LiarsParadox if i wasn't a straight shooter i wouldn't have told you that i'm an unreliable narrator]], now would i?"
70	-->-- '''[[https://archive.org/details/Collected_Tweets_and_Retweets_of_JohnWinthrop9/1457013477835423747-FDhaCPiWYAI1ZKw.jpg @JohnWinthrop9]]''' on Website/{{Twitter}}
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72	->''I am Alpharius. This is a lie.''
73	-->-- '''Alpharius Omegon''', ''[[Literature/HorusHeresy Alpharius: Head of the Hydra]]''
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75	->''"I am in my Buick, staring in the rearview mirror at my daughter in the car seat, an hour after I gave Derek, a guy I don't know, the last 30 bucks I had. My editor reminds me it's seven years before car seats are mandatory. My ex-wife reminds me I never owned a Buick. This is the odyssey of recollection."''
76	-->-- '''Daniel Molloy''', ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022''
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