Quotes About Realism

The book, Anna Karenina, is] a mirror held up to the real, grimy, quotidian interactions of married life, of which romance is little more than a passing mood: marriage, that slippery social contract that, if it works at all, depends more on indulgent disconnection than on some kind of sacred accord.

History's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell.

Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts.

Von Henscher said: "What about Japan? Is there any chance the Japs might be persuaded to attack the Panama Canal, or even California?" "Realistically, no," Walter said firmly. The discussion was venturing farther into the land of fantasy. But von Henscher persisted. "Nevertheless, the mere

Sin embargo, los moderados siempre parecían fiarse más de las esperanzas que de los hechos.

Se trata de pragmatismo político, nada más.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips' red:If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

In China we say, "You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet." Sometimes love can be ugly. But one still has to take it and swallow it.

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

The devil hates our laughter. "Joy," C. S. Lewis's demon, Screwtape, writes to his nephew, "is a disgusting and a direct assault to the realism, dignity and austerity of hell.

Don't go into the relationship expecting it to be perfect, only to be let-down and angry once you all realize that y'all have work to do.

Utopias can only be built on the ruins of reality