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> [“Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary to treat them with respect, for they were the intermediaries between oneself and the rest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/equally-the-surrealists-consider-words-as-witnesses-of-life-acting-in/)

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## More by Michael Richardson

> [Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/surrealism-then-neither-aims-to-subvert-realism-as-does-the-fantastic/)

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> [“By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it is necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/by-giving-words-the-latitude-she-does-marianne-van-hirtum-emphasizes/)

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> [“In this stillness that is at the same time movement, in this darkness that is at the same time light, change is found not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/in-this-stillness-that-is-at-the-same-time-movement-in-this-darkness/)

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> [“Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/equally-the-surrealists-consider-words-as-witnesses-of-life-acting-in/)

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> [“The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of reality. It points…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/the-fantastic-is-in-complicity-with-the-realist-model-in-the-claims/)

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> [“Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is, by definition,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/surrealism-also-refuses-the-representation-of-reality-reality-can/)

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> [“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/in-our-modern-world-this-elemental-quality-of-storytelling-is-denied/)

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> [“The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/the-real-importance-of-automatism-lay-in-the-fact-that-it-led-to-a/)

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> [“A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/a-stubborn-refusal-of-the-conditions-of-20th-century-reality/)

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> [“The form of the Gothic novel also implicitly contested the claims of Realism to reflect the world directly by showing how artificial its structure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/the-form-of-the-gothic-novel-also-implicitly-contested-the-claims-of/)

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> [“The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/the-shifting-sands-of-the-world-show-how-much-the-surrealists-were/)

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> [“As Peret asserts, the value of such stories resides in the fact that they respond to direct social necessity but in a way that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/as-peret-asserts-the-value-of-such-stories-resides-in-the-fact-that/)

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> [“Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/refusing-what-adorno-called-that-comfort-in-the-uncomfortable-taken/)

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> [“We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-richardson/we-can-sum-up-the-surrealist-distinction-between-literature-and/)

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