literary realism

Leo Tolstoy

Literature

literary realism

1828–1910

"There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power."

🇬🇧Charles Dickens

Literature

literary realism

1719–1793

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

🇺🇸Sinclair Lewis

Literature

literary realism

1885–1951

"Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. ~ Ch. 6"

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Literature

literary realism

1871–1922

"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."

🇷🇺Svetlana Alexievich

Literature

literary realism

b. 1948

"Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone—the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth."

🇬🇧Zadie Smith

Literature

literary realism

b. 1975

"Is there anything more likely to take the shine off an affair that when the lover strikes up a convivial relationship with the lovee's mother."

🇫🇷Guy de Maupassant

Science

literary realism

1850–1893

"I was hard hit. I wanted to ask this little girl to marry me. If we had passed eight days together, I should have done so! How weak and incomprehensible a man sometimes is!"

🇺🇸William Dean Howells

Literature

literary realism

1837–1920

"The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment."

🇷🇺Ivan Goncharov

Literature

literary realism

1812–1891

"To this day the Russian, though surrounded by a stern, unimaginative world of reality, loves to believe the seductive tales of antiquity. And long will it be before he will have been weaned from that belief."

🇫🇷Honoré de Balzac

journalism

literary realism

1799–1850

"The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us."

Doris Lessing

Literature

literary realism

1919–2013

"The New York Times archive for Doris Lessing"

🇬🇧Jane Austen

Literature

literary realism

1775–1817

"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

Ivan Turgenev

Literature

literary realism

1818–1883

"Death is an old joke, but it comes like new to everyone."