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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
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integrity
self-determination
independence
women
freedom
self-awareness
identity
empowerment
image
realism
gender
flaws
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Charlotte Brontë |
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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 get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
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integrity
men
self-determination
independence
romance
women
freedom
self-awareness
identity
empowerment
love
ideal-woman
image
realism
gender
flaws
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Charlotte Brontë |
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"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself."
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integrity
self-determination
independence
women
freedom
self-awareness
identity
empowerment
ideal-woman
image
realism
gender
flaws
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Charlotte Brontë |
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Realism can break a writer's heart.
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writing
realism
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Salman Rushdie |
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The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
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realism
destruction
creation
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Anaïs Nin |
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5977d96
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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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writing
reality
novels
realism
writers
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Michel Houellebecq |
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I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.
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realism
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Jim Butcher |
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09e2cda
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Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.
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realism
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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to ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on you, something else is hurting you - that's why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think, or madhouses or mechanical cunts or 162 baseball games in a season. or vietnam or israel or the fear of spiders. your love washing her yellow false teeth in the sink before you screw.
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dirty-realism
legalization
legalize
whiskey
weed
realism
pot
drugs
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Charles Bukowski |
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"The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment."
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revenge
realism
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Harlan Ellison |
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4c05d63
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It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.
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lies
reality
realism
despair
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Terry Pratchett |
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ab759fb
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You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out. There was some nervous laughter, but Reg looked offended. 'In the circumstances, Sergeant, I think we should set our sights a little higher--' 'Well, yes, we could,' said Vimes, coming down the steps. He glanced at the sheets of papers in front of Reg. The man cared. He really did. And he was serious. He really was. 'But...well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we won't have found Freedom, and there won't be a whole lot of Justice, and I'm damn sure we won't have found Truth. But it's just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.
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freedom
truth
hard-boiled-egg
justice
revolution
realism
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Terry Pratchett |
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576d8c9
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You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there's nowhere else in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds. And what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real life.
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universe
humour
humanity
science
realism
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Terry Pratchett |
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e85218c
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Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.
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noninterventionism
realism
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Christopher Hitchens |
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86fc7f7
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I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.
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faith
realism
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Flannery O'Connor |
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c7cedd4
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Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
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people
environmentalists
logistics
environmentalism
practicality
realism
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David Brin |
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I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.
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realism
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Haruki Murakami |
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"If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron... my answer is "How should I know?"... I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries... I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph."
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philosophy
solipsism
realism
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Martin Gardner |
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47e473d
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Las convenciones siempre nos imponen su locura en los momentos menos apropiados.
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realism
dark-humor
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Irvine Welsh |
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e854603
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Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset, and the most powerful force available for the transformation of human suffering.
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suffering
faith
reality
spirituality
belief-system
conscious-living
facing-facts
forces-of-nature
healing-abuse
healing-the-emotional-self
healing-trauma
human-suffering
intellectualism
intelligent
intelligent-people
outlook-on-the-world
overcoming-adversity-quotes
real-world
smart-people
sophisticated
spiritual-living
stepchild
suffering-of-humanity
worldview-quotes
spiritual-quotes
worldview
mindset
healing-the-past
power-of-love
spiritual-wisdom
beliefs
realism
power-of-thoughts
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Marianne Williamson |
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Realism is for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and convention subject matter. Re-Fi is a repetitive genre written by unimaginative hacks who rely on mere mimesis. If they had any self-respect they'd be writing memoir, but they're too lazy to fact-check. Of course I never read Re-Fi. But the kids keep bringing home these garish realistic novels and talking about them, so I know that it's an incredibly narrow genre, completely centered on one species, full of worn-out cliches and predictable situations--the quest for the father, mother-bashing, obsessive male lust, dysfunctional suburban families, etc., etc. All it's good for is being made into mass-market movies. Given its old-fashioned means and limited subject matter, realism is quite incapable of describing the complexity of contemporary experience.
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realism
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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"The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective." (Letter, April 19, 1951)"
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writing
private-detective
realism
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Raymond Chandler |
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4a0ca11
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If I were writing a novel I would end it here: a novel, I used to think, has to end somewhere, but I'm beginning to believe my realism has been at fault all these years, for nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story ended here.
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life
realism
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Graham Greene |
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The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater.
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writer
writing
christian-writers
novelist
realistic-fiction
writers-on-writing
perspective
perception
perception-of-reality
realism
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Flannery O'Connor |
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The writer has no rights at all except those he forges for himself inside his own work. We have become so flooded with sorry fiction based on unearned liberties, or on the notion that fiction must represent the typical, that in the public mind the deeper kinds of realism are less and less understandable.
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realism
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Flannery O'Connor |
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"Calatoria pare sa fie destul de lunga. Tanarul pare sa se fi imbarcat in trenul lui Auguste Compte, sa fi trecut prin statia teologiei, a carei deviza era: ,,Da! Crede si nu cerceta" pentru a poposi si a scormoni acum in taramurile metafizicii a carei deviza este: ,,Nu!", iar in departare se intrezareste realismul, pe al carui frontispiciu sta scris: ,,Deschide ochii si intdrazneste!"." --
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pozitivism
viața
realism
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Naguib Mahfouz |
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300139f
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Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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realism
strategy
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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e100769
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Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesn't set policy....
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realism
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James S.A. Corey |
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338c54c
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When you're in the middle of a killing field and the fucking Chooser of the Slain tells you to do something, you do it
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realism
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Kevin Hearne |
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(...) Qual sera o destino de Helene? O meu, certamente. Que meios tem as maes de assegurar as suas filhas que o homem ao qual elas serao entregues sera o esposo de seus coracoes? As pobres criaturas que se vendem por alguns trocados a um homem qualquer sao humilhadas, mas a fome e a necessidade absolvem essas unioes efemeras; enquanto a sociedade tolera e encoraja a uniao imediata, da mesma maneira horrivel, de uma jovem menina ingenua e de um homem que ela mal conhecia ha tres meses; ela e vendida por toda sua vida. E verdade que o preco e alto! Se, nao permitindo nenhum compensacao a suas dores, ele sera honrado; mas, nao, o mundo calunia as mais virtuosas dentre nos! Este e nosso destino, visto sob duas faces: uma prostituicao publica e a vergonha, e uma prostituicao secreta e a tristeza. Quanto as pobres meninas sem dote, elas se tornam loucas, elas morrem; para elas, nao ha piedade! A beleza, as virtudes nao sao valores no bazar humano, e esse antro de egoismo e chamado de Sociedade. Mas que as mulheres sejam deserdadas! Ao menos assim, uma lei da natureza sera cumprida ao escolher as companhias, casando-as segundo a vontade de seus coracoes.
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realism
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Honoré de Balzac |
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921a68f
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You're an idealist. The idealists are always the revolutionaries, the cat's paws. Then the realists consolidate, compromise and liquidate the opposition.
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idealism
crusade-to-maxis
dyal-travec
revolution
realism
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Jack Vance |
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417ef73
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The laws of physics, which govern the behaviour of atoms and the movements of the stars, govern also the conduct of rational beings. And yet: Being is still enchanted for us; in a hundred Places it remains a source - a play of pure Powers, which touches no one, who does not kneel and wonder. Words still go softly forth towards the unsayable. And music, always new, from palpitating stones Builds in useless space its godly home. [Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, n] This enchantment -- revealed to us in the constant intimation of sacred things -- belongs, not to the world of physical science, but to the Lebenswelt, which we ourselves construct through our collusive actions. The 'scientific realist' sees only a disenchanted world; and what he sees is real. But within reality we also make our home, and in doing so we provide the meaning that is lacking from the world of science.
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sacred
realism
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Roger Scruton |
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576fa52
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When the emergency brappers went of they did what any dedicated, well-trained and quick-minded Service personnel would do; they paniced. From the short story What Makes Us Human.
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science-fiction
realism
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Stephen R. Donaldson |
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927621b
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From love's absolutism to love's absolution? No: I don't believe in the cosy narratives of life some find necessary, just as I choke on comforting words like redemption and closure. Death is the only closure I believe in; and the wound will stay open until that final shutting of the doors. As for redemption, it's far too neat, a movie-maker's bromide; and beyond that, it feels like something grand, which human beings are too imperfect to deserve, much less bestow upon themselves.
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death
love
closure
platitudes
the-only-story
julian-barnes
realism
redemption
sad
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Julian Barnes |
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e4619cc
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The impulse behind fantasy I find to be dissatisfaction with literary realism. Realism leaves out so much. Any consensual reality (though wider even than realism) nonetheless leaves out a great deal also. Certainly one solution to the difficulty of treating experience that is not dealt with in the literary tradition, or even in consensual reality itself, is to 'skew' the reality of a piece of fiction, that is, to employ fantasy. Sometimes authors can't face the full reality of what they feel or know and can therefore express that reality only through hints and guesses. Fantasies often fit this pattern, for example, Edith Wharton's fine ghost story, 'Afterwards.' Wharton can't afford to investigate too explicitely the assumptions and values of the society which provided her with money and position; so although the story 'knows' in a sense that the artistic culture of the wealthy depends on devastatingly brutal commecial practices, none of this can be as explicit as, say, Sylvia Townsend Warner's wonderful historical novel, Summer Will Show, in which the mid-19th century heroine ends by reading the Communist Manifesto. But there are other stories, quite as 'Gothic' in method and tone, which do not fit this pattern. Authors may know what their experience is and yet be unable to name it, not because it is unconscious or unfaceable, but because it is not majority experience. Shirley Jackson strikes me as a writer who does both: for example, clearly portraying Eleanor (in The Haunting of Hill House) as an abused child long before the phrase itself was invented, occasionally using material she doesn't really seem to have understood; and sometimes dislocating reality because conventional forms simply will not express the kind of experience she knows exists. After all, reality is -- collectively speaking -- a social invention and is not itself real. Individually, it is as much something human beings do as it is something refractory that is prior to us and outside us.
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realism
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Joanna Russ |