Quotes About Realism

Never expect more than what is possible.

You can look for good qualities in the one you love but you can't keep looking for love in a person who has good qualities.

If you are working on a short story for a small online press, don't try to write a serious, world-changing, add-this-to-the-literary-canon masterpiece. Do your best work, but keep it all in perspective. Save the stress for when it is really called for, like facing a two-week deadline to rewrite a novel for a major house.

Disarming an idealist was easy

Such an interesting English expression "dog eat dog", since dogs don't really eat dogs (dogs do eat shit, but that's another story).

He has asked himself sometimes if solitude is preferable to boredom or betrayal, which seemed to be the inevitable end of all happy love affairs, of all happy marriages. People clung to one another out of fear. K.D. has preferred the integrity of being alone. He was a realist, he is. He has the strength to face death alone.

Perfect wife is the one who knows that no man is perfect.

The man trying to find a horse or a wife without fault has neither steed in his stable nor angel in his bed.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.

Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.

Don't be a Pollyanna!

He was a trifle embarrassed to be deserting his hard-won realism in order to follow what he thought was the dominant philosophical fashion.

A ficção como sempre, ocupa um lugar secundário face à História; as mulheres reais são sempre mais complexas e mais contraditórias do que as heroínas de um romance, tal como as mulheres reais dos nossos tempos, como as de então, são muitas vezes maiores do que o retrato que delas se faz, por vezes maiores do que o mundo quer que sejam.

If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon

See? My plans don't all suck. Just most of them.

No, Kez, don't pour sugar on a pile of shit and call it breakfast.

Don't go all unicorns pooping rainbows on us.

The whole thing was silly," I said. "Please tell her there's no need to apologize. We set ourselves up for this. I was never going to be the guy in her head. And she was never going to be the girl in mine. And that's okay. Seriously.

Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? But realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one.

Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? But realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by.