{"quotes":[{"text":"Some people see the liquid and thing half full. Others only see the air and think half empty. Sometimes I get the sense Chatham sees it all, which is kind of terrifying. I don't know if I want him to see me--the real me.","author":"McCall Hoyle","tags":["optimism","pessimism","realism"],"id":82,"author_id":"McCall+Hoyle"},{"text":"Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.","author":"Georgia O'Keeffe","tags":["details","meaning","realism"],"id":8077,"author_id":"Georgia+O%27Keeffe"},{"text":"Because I have ‘chosen’ to see something as impossible, there’s a good chance that it’s not.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["belief","determination","dreams","fear","fortitude","goals","impossibilities","impossible","misperception","perception","possibilities","possible","realism","tenacity"],"id":13511,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Not everyone can just up an’ go whenever they please!","author":"Jason Medina","tags":["a-ghost-in-new-orleans","ana","complaint","jason-medina","not-everyone","realism","reality","tribal-publications","tribal-publications-inc","up-and-go","whenver-they-please"],"id":14229,"author_id":"Jason+Medina"},{"text":"When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["familiarity","interpretation","literature","novels","readers","reading","realism","reality","robert-mccrum","translation","writing"],"id":18970,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!","author":"William Dean Howells","tags":["hero","heroism","realism","romanticism"],"id":25647,"author_id":"William+Dean+Howells"},{"text":"Don’t let realism keep you from doing what you feel you need to do, even if you think it’s hopeless.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["determination","hope","hopeless","necessity","realism"],"id":29554,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"On the morning appointed for her departure Tess awoke before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute save for one prophetic bird, who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence, as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["nature","realism"],"id":29769,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"},{"text":"I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["character","empowerment","flaws","freedom","gender","ideal-woman","identity","image","independence","integrity","love","men","realism","romance","self-awareness","self-determination","women"],"id":31273,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.","author":"Will Durant","tags":["disillusionment","fallibility","humility","realism"],"id":31607,"author_id":"Will+Durant"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":160,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}