#realism

HISTORIA RADICALMENTE CONCENTRADA DE LA ERA POSTINDUSTRIAL Cuando fueron presentados, él hizo un comentario ingenioso porque quería caer bien. Ella soltó una risotada estrepitosa porque quería caer bien. Luego los dos cogieron sus coches y se fueron solos a sus casas, mirando fijamente la carretera, con la misma mueca en la cara. Al hombre que los había presentado no le caía demasiado bien ninguno de los dos, pero fingía que sí porque le preocupaba mucho tener buenas relaciones con todo el mundo. Después de todo, nunca se sabe, ¿verdad que no? ¿Verdad? ¿Verdad? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#dirty-realism #history #men

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#truth #nature

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening. ↗

— Paula Fox

#realism #slavery #truth #truth-telling #slavery

Justice is what is good for the stronger. ↗

— Thrasymachus

#political-science #realism #science

To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#magic-realism #thriller #comedy

Exit, pursued by a bear. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#legend #surrealism #theater #surreal

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#surreal

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. ↗

— Salvador Dalí

#surrealism #surreal

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. ↗

— André Breton

#reality #subject #surrealism #surreal

I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss. ↗

— Joë Bousquet

#sky #surrealism #surreal