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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,… — Michel de Certeau
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… — Alexandra Fuller
I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people. — Danai Gurira
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
Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. — Archibald MacLeish
My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like… — Vincent Van Gogh
I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a… — Vera Wang
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so… — Campbell Scott
We’re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it. — Ishmael
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… — Tony Robbins
You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning. — Arnold Hano
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… — P.J. O'Rourke
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… — Jeff VanderMeer
I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in… — Elvis Costello
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… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. — Elmer Davis
There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop… — Junot Diaz
Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but… — Fred Durst
I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me. — Mitch Hedberg
We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient… — David Icke
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars… — Stephen King
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God. — Anne Lamott
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only… — Karl Marx
Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind. — Bryant H. McGill

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