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Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."|'''Jaques''', ''[[William Shakespeare|As You Like It]]'' Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166}} |
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."|'''Jaques''', ''[[William Shakespeare|As You Like It]]'' Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166}} |
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{{quote|Ah! [[Like Reality Unless Noted|What avails]] the classic bent |
{{quote|Ah! [[Like Reality Unless Noted|What avails]] the classic bent |
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And what the [[Literature|cultured word]], |
And what the [[Literature|cultured word]], |
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Against the un[[Contrived Coincidence|doctored]] incident |
Against the un[[Contrived Coincidence|doctored]] incident |
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That [[Truth in Television|actually]] occurred? |
That [[Truth in Television|actually]] occurred? |
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And what is Art whereto we press |
And what is Art whereto we press |
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Through paint and prose and rhyme-- |
Through paint and prose and rhyme-- |
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When Nature in her nakedness |
When Nature in her nakedness |
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Defeats us every time?|'''[[Rudyard Kipling]]''' ''The Benefactors''}} |
Defeats us every time?|'''[[Rudyard Kipling]]''' ''The Benefactors''}} |
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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."
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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!" |