Above all I was determined to prove that the Australian novel is not necessarily the dreary, dun-coloured offspring of journalistic realism.

-White, Patrick Victor Martindale
  Essay on his literary career, in Australian Letters,'The Prodigal Son', vol.1, no.3, Apr.

   The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of 908 Caliban seeing his own face in the glass.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
The Picture of Dorian Gray, preface.