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• Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Important, Fiction, Might

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

  Walter Pater

  Facts, Wordsworth, Natural

  Walter Pater (1901). “The Works of Walter Pater: Essays from 'The Guardian.'”

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• Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once women made it public that they could do things better than men, they were, of course, forced to do them.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sex, Cat, Men

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.87, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Moving, Sake, Way

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• You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.

  Arnold Hano

  Wall, Crazy, Cat

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• It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.

  Lionel Trilling

  Errors, Metaphor, Accepted

  Lionel Trilling (1939). “Matthew Arnold”

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• I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.

  Jason Shawn Alexander

  Space, Pieces, Kind

  "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.

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• In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Crazy, Mirrors

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951”, Library of America

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• I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those statements. I view Jesus as a model for how we should live, and by that definition I do consider myself a Christian.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Christian, Jesus, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others.

  Clare of Assisi

  Love, Christian, Mean

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• "All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Equality, Men, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.362, Rajpal & Sons

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• I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to be attentive to words in a very specific, very concrete, very literal way.

  Ann Goldstein

  Thinking, Editors, Training

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Self, Denial

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.43, Rajpal & Sons

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• All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.

  Lily Allen

  Song

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sea, Land, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct emotional intensity. For example, if you develop a habit of saying you 'hate' things - you 'hate' your hair; you 'hate' your job; you 'hate' having to do something - do you think this raises the intensity of your negative emotional states more than if you use a phrase like 'I prefer something else'?

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Jobs, Hate

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a straight-forward definition for 'Independent Filmmaking'. The term references a group of films that are financed by money that comes from outside the studio system. In a literal sense that is what it means.

  Andrew Neel

  Mean, Independent, Groups

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.

  George Steiner

  Past

  George Steiner (1974). “In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture”, p.3, Yale University Press

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• I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

  Ann Goldstein

  Thinking, Important, Be Kind

  Source: time.com

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• For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.

  Daniel Levitin

  Moving, Successful, Artist

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• Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.

  Carrie Brownstein

  School, Thinking, Order

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.

  Ben Affleck

  Actors, Investment, Commodity

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.

  David Salle

  Art, Live Life, Imagination

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• The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Thousand, Paraphrase, Prettiest

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

  Robert Hughes

  Evil, World, Made

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.59, Vintage

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