#realist

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#juxtaposition #quotations #surrealist #taste

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#classics #exposed #focus #great #guys

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years. ↗

— Brett Hull

#couple #cut #earns #extra #get

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#i #i think #melodrama #myself #opera

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn. ↗

— Michael Novak

#christians #hopeful #jews #judaism #too

It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine." "Darling Rose, even almost nearly nine-year-old's don't fall in love," said forgetful Caddy. Caddy tried very hard to comfort Rose when Tom had left. It was not an easy job. It was like trying to comfort a small, unhappy tiger. "Who said anything about falling in love?" growled Rose crossly. "Falling! Falling is by accident! I didn't fall in anything!" "Oh. Right. Sorry, Posy Rose." "And I am definitely not in love! ↗

— Hilary McKay

#families #love #realistic-fiction #family

Be such that people get to know of you as you are rather than comparing to others. ↗

— Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

#philosophy-of-life #realistic #life

The wind blew through the window. The trousers swayed. Doubtless when they were on Mr. Craggs, the trousers looked splendid and went perfectly well together with his body. But like this, isolated in space, Mr. Cragg's trousers were nightmarish. The wind blew through the window. As they swayed, the trousers were alive. A shot, truncated, square creature consisting entirely of legs, belly and what went with them. And now it would get down and start walking among people and over people and grow and... ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#surrealistic #trousers #men

'Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic. ↗

— Jenson Button

#movie #only #racing #realistic #totally

I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing. ↗

— Kirsten Dunst

#because #become #certain #certain way #come