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.
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...
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Unknown
The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.
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Shannon L. Alder
People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic! '" (2009)]
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Dylan Moran
There are always loose ends in real life.
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Robert Galbraith
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.
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Michel Houellebecq
More Quotes By Georgia OKeeffe
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.
