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Appearance VERSUS reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
It may be true that my desk here is really "nothing but" a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. . . . The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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