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Realism Quotes

"Our job is not to be perfect; our job is to be human"

"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."

"I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against."

"You can't be everything to everybody at once"

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin"

"Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be"

"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

"I don't believe in that kind of American film star reality. I believe in the reality that people are not always successful and that people have a lot of problems"

"Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be"

"The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy"

"Be a philosopher but amid all your philosophy be still a man"

"I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched"

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."

"There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs"

"Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being… there are legitimate expectations, but one must always make room for the fallibility of human nature."

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