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The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.

— Reza Aslan

“Literalists of the imagination”

— Mary Ann Moore

We contend that ideas and/or practices may be scriptural as long as they are not condemned by scripture.

— Charles H. Kraft

One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if…

— Robert J. Sawyer

“This ‘reality’ is so obviously unreal. It’s like bad screenplay writing. No matter how many times you see the same tired script playing out…

— Sol Luckman

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

— Wallace Stevens

If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification

— Robert Smithson

Let me tell you what, reality is better than any script you could ever write.

— Dana White

Reality is only just a word.

— Harry Chapin

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for…

— Natalie Clifford Barney

I don't ever get too literal.

— Linda Perry