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• A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• Don't swear in the Literal Heart of Jesus.

  John Green

  Jesus, Hipster, Heart

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.814, Penguin

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• However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Believe, Men, Sea

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• The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.

  William Shawn

  Years, Facts, Truth Is

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• There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Political, Flying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.

  Roberto Orci

  Sci Fi, Western

  Source: collider.com

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• The only moment football really stops is with a penalty kick - and that is a moment that is really dramatic. A penalty kick becomes a Western duel. It's two guys facing each other. Destiny and potential death, whether metaphorical or literal. That's why in the penalty kick at the end of the film, I shot it like an homage to the Sergio Leone Westerns I saw when I was a kid, especially The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

  Carlos Cuaron

  Football, Kids, Destiny

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across. Good writing is more subversive I think - or good scenes. They are about one thing on the page but you can make it about something completely different.

  Chace Crawford

  Writing, Thinking, Pages

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

  Raf Simons

  Dream, Fashion, Thinking

  "The geek who conquered the fashion world". Interview With Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2008.

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• Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a new opportunity to challenge yourself, to push your limits beyond what you thought possible, to learn from climbers on the trail ahead of you, and to take in some amazing views. Your performance on the mountain you climbed last week or last month or last year doesn't matter - because it's all about what you are doing right now.

  Alison Levine

  Opportunity, Views, Years

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• I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Fear, Thinking, Water

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• The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life

  Ma Jian

  Character, Chinese, Revolution

  Ma Jian (2008). “Beijing Coma: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second, poetic geography on top of the geography of the literal, forbidden or permitted meaning. They insinuate other routes into the functionalist and historical order of movement. Walking follows them: 'I fill this great empty space with a beautiful name.'

  Michel de Certeau

  Beautiful, Mean, Order

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.105, Univ of California Press

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• Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Book, Reality, Diaries

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• I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

  Danai Gurira

  People, Narrative

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• I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Might, Facts, Chaos

  "A life in art: Anselm Kiefer" by icholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.

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• One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

  Julie Taymor

  Real, Fake, Doe

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• There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however we're built, as we get into these years, some inner part of you does begin to accept the fact that you're heading towards the end, and there's a peace that comes with that.

  Frank Langella

  Mean, Years, Wish

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

  Cynthia Daignault

  Space, Different, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that it is. Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.

  Bill Hicks

  Dad, Believe, People

  "Filling Up the Hump". Audio bootleg, 1993.

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• Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

  Emily Blunt

  Perfect, Watches, Want

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• Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music. You've heard the expression, music of the spheres? Well, that's a very literal phrase. In the Gospels, we read, "And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul." That 'breath of life' to me is the music of life and it permeates every fiber of creation.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, Men, Dust

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• Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.

  J. I. Packer

  Spiritual

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.104, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.

  Vance Havner

  Fire, Cities, Gold

  Vance Havner (1976). “All the Days”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is twofold: first, many, many people even to this day, do take the whole of their Scripture to be literal fact, and they have a great deal of political power over the rest of us, especially in the United States and in the Islamic world. Second, if not of literal fact, how should we take the story? As an alagory? Then an alagory for what? Surely, nothing praiseworthy. As a moral lesson? But what kind of morals could one derive from this appalling story?

  Richard Dawkins

  Islamic, Taken, Sacrifice

  "Richard Dawkins and God". "Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett on ABC Radio National, www.abc.net.au. November 26, 2006.

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