Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.
Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.
Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.
Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.
The realism of failure, the romance of success.
Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.
The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.
In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.
When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.
