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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
by Aldous Huxley (Novelist, English , born in 1894) keywords: best, cynical, doing, excuse, intelligent, intolerable, man, nothing, realism , situation Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
by Claude McKay (Writer, Jamaican , born in 1889) keywords: air, based, castle, foundation, idealism, political, realism, social , solid I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.
by Marvin Minsky (Scientist, American , born in 1927) keywords: believed, comment, effect, four, hard, hundred, intelligent, john, mccarthy, realism, really, summarized, system, worked , years Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.
by Oliver North (Soldier, American , born in 1943) keywords: any, compromised, create, draw, excitement, exciting, experiences, hubris, intended, lead, life, mission, pretty, realism, sense, story, those, tried, within , without The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.
by George Oppen (Poet, American , born in 1908) keywords: argue, away, carefully, etc, left, masses, new, old, pointless, realism, seemed, situation, socialist, stayed, theory , wrote Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
by Sara Paretsky (Author, American , born in 1947) keywords: affecting, along, astonishing, blended, breathtaking, chicago, comedy, country, ghost, gritty, magic, mean, realism, reviewers, rich, ride, said, streets, urban , way He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
by Jackson Pollock (Artist, American , born in 1912) keywords: bounced, drove, hard, his, into, kind, painting, realism , right Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
by Dawn Powell (Writer, American , born in 1896) keywords: insides, left, out, realism, romanticism, satire, seem, their , would I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.
by Debbie Reynolds (Actor, American , born in 1932) keywords: because, clothes, filth, making, maybe, movies, off, opinion, realism, stopped, taking , utter Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.
by Terri Windling (Artist) keywords: american, around, been, form, label, latin, literature, long, magic, modern, new, popularity, realism , specific I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
by Marguerite Young (Author, American , born in 1908) keywords: abandon, back, between, book, course, drunkards, forth, never, poetic, prose, real, realism, realistic, style, surreal, their, try, weave, would , write Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
by Marguerite Young (Author, American , born in 1908) keywords: insert, passages, philosophy, poetic, realism, revert, some, texts, their, them, underlying, uphold , writers
