Quotes with realism

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  • Aldous Huxley Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Jonathan Franzen Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
    How to Be Alone: Essays (2007) 87
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • H. P. Lovecraft I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Barbara Hepworth I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
    Barbara Hepworth: a retrospective
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Oscar Wilde I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Angela Carter My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Jean Cocteau True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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