Realism has always been called cynicism.

If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

— David Foster Wallace

Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is…

— Lucy Corin

Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's…

— Gore Vidal

“The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.”

— Gore Vidal

“I'd like to issue a call to realism for those of us in so-called developed industrial nations, who indulge in great horror at the…

— Brian Awehali

“For Metafiction, in its ascendant and most important phases, was really nothing more than a single-order expansion of its own great theoretical nemisis, Realism:…

— David Foster Wallace

“But if all maximizing models are really arguing is that “people will always seek to maximize something,” then they obviously can’t predict anything, which…

— David Graeber

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw.”

— Maloy Krishna Dhar

“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called…

— George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

— George Bernard Shaw

“It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.”

— Robert Priest

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

— Ben Shapiro

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

— Harold Pinter

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

— Beth Moore

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

— Andy Stanley