A Quote by Edward Bond
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
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The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .
We are living in an age where it's difficult to know what the truth is and we have got politicians in charge who actually appear to not really care what the truth is.
When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.
Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.
My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
A big lie is more plausible than truth.
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
I'm the same on stage as I am off stage. A lot of people who I admire - Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne - are not that different either. You hope that if you met them that they'd be as nice and well-rounded as they appear.
In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable.
What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean poetry in the fancy sense. Naturalism believes by just replicating a thing you give the truth, rather than earning the truth.
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