#realism

Realism can break a writer's heart. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#realism #writing #shame

Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist - life was a bag of shit you were expected to pay for. ↗

— N.C. Thomas

#pessimism #realism #life

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. ↗

— André Breton

#stories #surrealism #surreal

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism. ↗

— Bette Davis

#fought #hollywood #i #me #pretty

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#call #decided #even #hate #high

As though eavesdropping, the whistling wind refuses to speak above a whisper. The winding road is cut into the side of the mountain in such a way that it seems they are not making any progress; the walk down will require endurance. She looks up at the cluster of clouds which have been pencilled in neatly against the sky, and hopes it doesn’t rain. It occurs rapidly, a geisha brusquely folding shut her fan; the sun sets, and brilliant darkness replaces light. ↗

— Curtis Ackie

#dreams #magic-realism #surrealism #dreams

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. ↗

— Edmund White

#experimental #i #i think #realism #sincerity

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#ask #dramatist #give #look #realism

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#realism #environmentalism

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#be true #been #divided #false #generally