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  • If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

    Writing   Realist   Ifs  
    "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1968.
  • The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.

    Real   Simple   World  
    Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.22, Autonomedia
  • The visionary is the only realist.

  • I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.

    Reality   Iraq   Realist  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.

    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.

    Source: www.aintitcool.com
  • I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

  • Be realistic, demand the impossible!

  • It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.

    William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”
  • The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

    Miracle   Facts   Realist  
    Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.53, Clap Publishing, LLC.
  • A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

    Success   Real   Liars  
    Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.106, Open Road Media
  • I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

  • As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.

  • Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

    Love   Men   Pits  
  • Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

    Golf   Games   Attention  
  • The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

    Song   Writing   Mirrors  
    "Exclusive Interview: Colm Toibin Talks About His New Story Collection". Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.
  • Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.

  • Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

    Dream   Jobs   Work  
  • Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?

  • The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

    Photography   Art   Past  
  • I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.

    "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.
  • Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2002). “Miscellaneous Writings of G.W.F. Hegel”
  • I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

    Honesty   Space   Editing  
  • A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds.

    Real   Bird   Dreamer  
    Sylvia Plath, “Love Is A Parallax”
  • Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

    Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.29, Penguin
  • I am a realist. I expect miracles.

  • The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.

    Tunnels   Light   Next  
    Sydney J. Harris (1982). “Pieces of Eight”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

    "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.
  • He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

    Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.340, Simon and Schuster
  • I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

    Names   Use   Groups  
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