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• Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

  Hob Broun

  Reality

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• Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But realism, being a view about the status of such normative theories, insists that the truth of any firstorder normative standard is not a function of what anyone happens to think of it.

  Russ Shafer-Landau

  Thinking, Views, Order

  Russ Shafer-Landau (2003). “Moral Realism: A Defence”, p.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well. ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  Heart, Reality, Organization

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• Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

  Albert Camus

  Religious, Art, Mean

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.270, Vintage

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• What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Reality, People, Tragedy

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.376, Macmillan

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• Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

  Honore de Balzac

  Reality, Imagination, Details

  "The Purse".

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• Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Art, Mean, Reality

  "The Portable Sherwood Anderson".

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• Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.

  Alex Kozinski

  Reality, Ideas, Study

  "What I Ate For Breakfast and Other Mysteries of Judicial Decision Making". Alex Kozinski's speech at the Symposium on the California Judiciary at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, digitalcommons.lmu.edu. March 19, 1993.

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• Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Science, Technology

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• The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

  Shana Alexander

  Eye, Reality, Mind

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist

  Andre Bazin

  Writing, Mean, Reality

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• The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

  Jacques Audiard

  Cinema, Interest

  "Discovering how to navigate the world", www.smh.com.au. March 28, 2013.

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• Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort — and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.

  George Saunders

  Erosion, Grace, Intellectual

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December”, p.27, A&C Black

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• Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life is what we want it to be may conceivably bring about the desired condition. Hence religious parables, socialist realism, Nazi propaganda. And if this story likewise crawls with reactionary supernaturalism, that might be because its author longs to see letters scuttling across ceilings, cautiously beginning to reify themselves into angels. For if they could only do that, then why not us?

  William T. Vollmann

  Religious, Angel, Letters

  William T Vollmann (2005). “Europe Central”, p.36, Penguin

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• You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

  Bill Gates

  Fall, Government, People

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

  Jean Renoir

  Film, American Film

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• There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the methods of operating manufactories and trades, and in minutely and unsparingly describing physical sensations. But is not realism, more than it is anything else, an attitude of mind on the part of the writer toward his material, a vague indication of the sympathy and candour with which he accepts, rather than chooses, his theme?

  Willa Cather

  Attitude, Numbers, Mind

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.45, U of Nebraska Press

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• I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination.

  Ralph Lauren

  Thinking, Romance, Glamour

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• Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

  Zane Grey

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• Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. [...] The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. They take the ready-made axioms laid down by others, and walk blindly in a rut without trying to see for themselves.

  Childe Hassam

  Art, Eye, Acceptance

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• We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

  Cesare Pavese

  Art, Opposites, Two

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.146, Transaction Publishers

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Morning, Prayer, Reading

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2002). “Miscellaneous Writings of G.W.F. Hegel”

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• Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.

  Philip Gulley

  Reality, Long, Comfortable

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• Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

  Terry Gilliam

  Thinking, Magic Realism, Age

  "Salman Rushdie Talks with Terry Gilliam". www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Two, World, Spirituality

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.43, Vivekananda Kendra

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