Realism… has no more to do with reality than anything else.

About Hob Broun

Hob Broun (born Heywood Orren Broun; 1950 – December 16, 1987) was an American author who lived in Portland, Oregon.

More quotations tagged with “reality”

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

—Henry Kissinger

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

—Garrison Keillor

Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks.

—Ellen Herman

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

—Dr. Karl Menninger

You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.