Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
From his style, you’d think Jason Brannon was the dark double of Ray Bradbury. He cares more about character and realism than… — Michael Arnzen Copy Share Image
I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“People who want to stay in your life will make efforts to be there with and beside you and those who don't… — Ayaan Basu Copy Share Image
“A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied… — Childe Hassam Copy Share Image
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Don't do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble toward one another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. — Claude McKay Copy Share Image
“...the evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.” — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie." ("Life resembles a novel more often than… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Our generation will eventually lead to an era were doing the wrong thing will seem right and doing the right thing will… — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Aim for the sky but set your sights on the next step. Setting goals is a good thing but you need to… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
So-called 'realist' photography does not capture the 'what is.' Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul. ... — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Artists used to argue about art for art's sake versus social realism etc, and now it's like the most dominate argument is… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise,… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
Best movie ever?! Come on, my appearance on Arrested Development had more dynamics, realism and feel to it than the whole trilogy… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth… Dramabegins where there's freedom of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I'd like to issue a call to realism for those of us in so-called developed industrial nations, who indulge in great horror… — Brian Awehali Copy Share Image
I think where a writer falls on the realism/non-realism continuum has a lot to do with their sight, as in, 'This is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“There was a lot about my life that was crappy, now that I couldn't talk. But if I hadn't gotten drunk that… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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