Realist


Of Mice and Men
The Catcher in the Rye
Madame Bovary
To Kill a Mockingbird
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Normal People
Mrs. Dalloway
The Grapes of Wrath
Anna Karenina
The Book Thief
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
The Great Gatsby
Where the Crawdads Sing
Everything I Never Told You
The Kite Runner
Andy Weir
There's no backup, and they think I'll die instantly without it. To them, equipment failure is terrifying. To me, it's “Tuesday. ...more
Andy Weir, The Martian

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also. The Apostle Thomas said that he would not believe till he saw, but when he did see he said, "My Lord and my God!" Was it the miracle forced him to believe? Most likely not, but he believed solely because he desired to believe and possibly he fully believed in his secret heart even when he said, "I do not believe till ...more
Fyodor Dostoyevski, The Brothers Karamazov

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