Hob Broun quotes

Hob Broun quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.”
-- Hob Broun

#Reality Quotes #Realism Quotes

“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.184, Macmillan
“It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.”
“We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.”
“We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.”
“The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.”
“The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.”
“Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.”
“The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.”
“Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.”
“Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.”

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