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Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction -- David Mitchell
A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true. -- Jimmy Carr
Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible. -- Ron Fournier
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. -- Rene Descartes
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. -- Alan Watts
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel. -- Candice Millard
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously. -- John Conyers
There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful. -- Marcia Angell
All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in. -- Michael Moritz
Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well. -- Rob Thomas
While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible. -- Aristotle
Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible. -- Rod Serling
It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible. -- E. B. White
Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you... -- Alexander Chee
I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel. -- Alexander Chee
Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts. -- Sam Harris
Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world -- Terry Eagleton
the flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories -- Tim Brookes
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It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft. -- Jacob Bernoulli
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. -- Thomas Nagel
As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible. -- Steven Weinberg
There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful. -- Marcia Angell
The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible. -- William Manchester
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. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine? -- Judith Hayes

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