Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to the amalgam of reality and fantasy. ("The New Russian Prose")
Yevgeny ZamyatinTags: art literature fantasy realism
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.
She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
Tags: art fiction realism magical-realism
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.
She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
Tags: art fairy-tale realism magical-realism
Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.
Christopher HitchensTags: anti-war realism noninterventionism
Saddam's politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests that some people are not going to be tractable in response to purely peaceable overtures. Indeed, it certainly appears that some individuals, including notably Saddam Hussein, will cheerfully help themselves to a yard for every inch offered by well-meaning peacemakers. When we are dealing with customers as tough as that, there is no alternative to being tough ourselves.
Jan NarvesonTags: politics peace war iraq pacifism iraq-war realism saddam-hussein thuggery liberal-hawk
I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry Potter did feel ultimately to me...just the fact everybody had married everybody. The books were so real and so grounded in what things are really like when you're that age, she nailed that so beautifully. And then there was this slightly fantastical ending. I know that was there for her to say, 'Really, I mean it, no more books,' but you do sort of go, people who were in a war are different from people who haven't been, and how does it affect them? But am I going to second-guess my favorite writer? I think not.
Joss WhedonTags: humour realism realism-in-fiction
The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss - you can 'beat it' and there's never enough. At least in my opinion - cause there are people, who complain about style intensity in literature: they prefer cereals with milk than abyssinian bitches roasted alive on bringhausers and watered with ya-yoo juice.
Stanisław Ignacy WitkiewiczTags: reality literature fiction novel realism fiction-novel
Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?
Lenore SkenazyTags: calm parenting realism rhetorical-question
Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!
William Dean HowellsTags: heroism hero realism romanticism
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.
Eugène IonescoTags: imagination truth reality dreams realism
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