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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde
Be realistic, demand the impossible! — Che Guevara
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… — Charlotte Bronte
Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. — Neil Gaiman
Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Girls are like apples...the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they… — Pete Wentz
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell… — Tennessee Williams
No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism… — Jonathan Franzen
Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed… — Terry Eagleton
At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Realism can break a writer's heart. — Salman Rushdie
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to… — Yukio Mishima
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non… — Maira Kalman
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us… — Albert Camus
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. — Samuel Johnson
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality — Ayn Rand
I don't want realism. I want magic! — Tennessee Williams
The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories… — E E Cummings
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. — Oscar Wilde
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions:… — Eugene Ionesco

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