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Cathey, Robert Andrew, God in Postliberal Perspective: Between Realism and Non-Realism (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009). — Ronald T. Michener

Realism...is a kind of disappointed tribute to the ideal. — Roger Scruton

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. — Alton Tobey

I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination. — Ralph Lauren

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real. — Ricky Gervais

In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic. — Garth Nix

Realism and art cannot live together. — Jeanette Lee

Magical Realist writer write the ordinary as miraculous and the miraculous as ordinary. — Bruce Holland Rogers

Only the early Fitzgerald was great. Then came an orgy of brutal realism — Federico Fellini

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism. — George Lakoff

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary. — Edmund Burke

For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fed lying somewhere out of sight. — Zack W. Van

Realism is a corruption of reality. — Wallace Stevens

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased. — F.K. Preston

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed. — Isaiah Berlin

We are not against the evil when our enemies are. — M.F. Moonzajer

There are always loose ends in real life. — Robert Galbraith

The Waverley sisters had married men as steadfast and normal as the women were mercurial and strange. — Sarah Addison Allen

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't? — Lenore Skenazy

I do not think that any realism is beautiful. — H.P. Lovecraft

Realism is the light that shines between change and challenge. — Balroop Singh

There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars. — Paul Virilio

An optimist without realism is an idiot. — Ben Tolosa

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me. — Sam Neill

The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes. — Robert Green Ingersoll

My one quarrel is with words. That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in literature. — Oscar Wilde

It is easier to start a war than to end it. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. — Paul Lynde

A likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer. — Vincent Van Gogh

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them
are ruinous! — William Dean Howells

...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable. — Ruth Dugdall

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism. — Ron Suskind

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. — Ben Shapiro

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed. — F.K. Preston

Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality. — Andre Bazin

Then consider the Middle (and later the New) Comedy and what it aimed at - gradually degenerating into mere realism and empty technique. — Marcus Aurelius

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. — Jackson Pollock

I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies. — Isabella Rossellini

And you'd be left there like a fucking dumpling. You'd be standing there. A fucking dumpling man I'm telling ye. — James Kelman

For these were the days when Time was still the horizon of beauty and had not yet begun its slow inexorable destructions. — J. Mulrooney

You brought nothing into this world; you will take nothing from it, but please, leave us with something — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Best movie ever?! Come on, my appearance on Arrested Development had more dynamics, realism and feel to it than the whole trilogy combined. — Zach Braff

Moral writing is boring. — Johan Van Wyk

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

The realism of failure, the romance of success. — Mason Cooley

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary. — Fumito Ueda

Any boy who'd love a sailboat-patterned, swimsuited sausage who tames rabid foxes would be wonderful. And impossible. — Fanny Britt

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow. — John C. Maxwell

I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books, but I also read a lot of realism like 'The Outsiders.' — Lisa Papademetriou

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public. — Douglas Alexander

I try to get a degree of realism in my music. — Martin Gore

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

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

They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities. — Ransom Riggs

When you feel hatred towards your life, hate it. See how it will actually do something to your life. — Ade Santi

My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane. — F.K. Preston

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today. — Anton Zeilinger

I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another. — Mary E. Pearson

...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for. — John Wooden

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work. — Honore De Balzac

Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing. — Lynn Flewelling

The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist. — Ayn Rand

Theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. — Milton Friedman

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. — Marguerite Young

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. — Childe Hassam

The cinema that interests me departs from realism. — Jacques Audiard

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth. — Jean Renoir

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state. — Will Durant

If all you talk about is what you have, it shows the less you have. — Pontius Joseph

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. — Jean Cocteau

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given. — Kayt C. Peck

She kissed him first, and all the rest followed. — Alice Hoffman

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts. — Fernand Leger

When words fail, the hammer drops,
living can never be its own excuse. — Michael Hogan

The evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Maybe we should always assume the worst. — Chuck Palahniuk

Sex sells & the small print will kill you — Phillip McCarron

Idealism and realism meet in the actual. — Mary Parker Follett

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

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — Oscar Wilde

Here it can be seen that solipsism, when its implications are followed out strictly, coincides with pure realism. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on. — Pablo Picasso

Don't be proud of only liking realism. It is like being proud of not having an imagination. — Matt Haig

Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee. — A.J. Darkholme

This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all. — George W. Bush

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out. — Dawn Powell

You know, it would be much less trouble if you were willing to bat your magic eyelashes. — Jamie Le Fay

The reality of time and change seemed to me the crux of realism. — Karl R. Popper

We are not often against the evils, only because our enemies are against them. — M.F. Moonzajer

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too. — Lois McMaster Bujold

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 it contains. — E. E. Cummings

If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid. — M.F. Moonzajer

Denying realism amounts to megalomania. — Karl R. Popper

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism. — Laura Marling

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise. — Criss Jami