"I was ever the realist, sometimes to my……" — Margaret George

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• I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a… — Paul Auster
• I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. — Hillary Clinton
• Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of… — Heywood Hale Broun
• The visionary is the only realist. — Federico Fellini
• If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things… — Quentin Crisp
• Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube… — Terry Pratchett
• Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here,… — Colin Powell
• President Hinckley is not only a living prophet but also a living seer. He sees things that others do not… — David E. Sorensen
• The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can… — Warren Rudman
• If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent… — John Barth
• The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a… — Roland Barthes

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