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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. — Alex Haley
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in… — Christopher Hitchens
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
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in… — Jacques Lacan
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its… — Jacques Lacan
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts. — Edmund Leach
The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the… — Ang Lee
Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something,… — Joyce Carol Oates
When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ… — Joel Osteen
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. — Ezra Pound
When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else.… — Anne Roiphe
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve. — Nate Silver
I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and… — Jane Smiley
It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste. — Andre Leon Talley
Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers… — James Surowiecki
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. — Paul Tillich
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone. — Naomi Wolf
But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in… — Jacques Lacan
Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some… — Michael Marshall Smith
There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might… — Haruki Murakami
The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting… — Saddam Hussein
The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst. — Margaret Atwood
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are… — Aldous Huxley
A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and… — Rebecca Solnit
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this… — Albert Einstein

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