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{{quote|''"Welcome to the real world, she said to me. |
{{quote|''"Welcome to the real world, she said to me. |
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Condescendingly. |
''Condescendingly. |
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Take a seat. |
''Take a seat. |
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Take your life. |
''Take your life. |
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Plot it out in black and white."'' |
''Plot it out in black and white."'' |
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|'''John Mayer'''| |
|'''John Mayer'''|"No Such Thing"}} |
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{{quote|''"Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?"'' |
{{quote|''"Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?"'' |
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|'''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'''|''The Sign of the Four''}} |
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{{quote|''"Life isn't bliss. |
{{quote|''"Life isn't bliss. |
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Life is just this: |
''Life is just this: |
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It's living. |
''It's living. |
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You gotta go on living. |
''You gotta go on living. |
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So one of us is living."'' |
''So one of us is living."'' |
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|'''Spike'''|''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "[[Musical Episode|Once More, With Feeling]]"}} |
|'''Spike'''|''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "[[Musical Episode|Once More, With Feeling]]"}} |
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All the world's a stage, —Jaques, As You Like It Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166
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Ah! What avails the classic bent —Rudyard Kipling, The Benefactors
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"The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense."
—many people, including Tom Clancy
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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
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"Welcome to the real world, she said to me. —John Mayer, "No Such Thing"
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"Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?" —Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four
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"Life isn't bliss. —Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Once More, With Feeling"
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"Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics. |
"Life. Loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it." —Marvin the Paranoid Android, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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"I don't like the real world. I have to live there, and it sucks. It's drab, it's dingy, quality control is a fucking joke, A-cups are far too prevalent, nobody can fly and all the dinosaurs are dead!" |
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