Quotes about Realism

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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither exp — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
My wife with the hair of a wood fireWith the thoughts of heat lightningWith the waist of an hourglassWith the waist of a — André Breton, Poems of André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology
The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely livin — Shannon L. Alder
People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phra — Dylan Moran
There are always loose ends in real life. — Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we s — Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death. — René Daumal, A Night of Serious Drinking
If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… — Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in — Erich Maria Remarque, Flotsam
Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, — Erich Maria Remarque, Flotsam
Il faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec la perspective d’un r — André Breton
We make versions, and true versions make worlds. — Nelson Goodman
I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is we're actually living on a planet in space. For me that's — Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl
But if two people do almost nothing except search for one another, it's hardly surprising if they run across each other — Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl
The of sitting a telescope in space was obviously not to get closer to the stars and planets the telescope was to study. — Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl
But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and spread to the w — Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl
We are the universe. — Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl
Perhaps we aren’t fully developed. The physical development of human beings necessarily had to precede the psychological — Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl
Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry. — Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl
But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing — Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl