Breaths Quote by Georges Bataille

“Ultimately, the violence in a game should serve the gameplay. If it doesn’t, then it’s gratuitous and you should consider doing without it. Realism”

— Ernest Adams

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental…

— Eugene Ionesco

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

— Zane Grey

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.

— Mark Frost

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

— Anonymous

Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale…

— Satish Kumar

Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's…

— Vikram Seth

The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

— Gavin de Becker

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

— Hob Broun

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

— Shane Claiborne