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“You'll have a better understanding of what was actually done if you start by knowing what had to be done - what always and…

— Aldous Huxley

“There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in literature but change and change…

— William Carlos Williams

Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started…

— Salman Rushdie

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”

— Albert Camus

“If one understands [just] the literal meaning, One becomes arrogant and one's mind deteriorates. Through rejecting the excellent teachings, One will be pulverized and…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“there is a radical underdetermination of what is said by the literal meaning of the sentence. There is nothing in the literal meaning of…

— John Rogers Searle

“It was just that the literal meaning itself wasn´t immediately comprehensible. That doesn´t mean it didn´t mean.”

— Ali Smith

The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.

— Northrop Frye

“It will not, however, affect one tiny bit the question of whether the text has a literal meaning because—mark this—every biblical text has a…

— Mark Shea

Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem…

— Wole Soyinka

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is…

— Ezra Pound

Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society,…

— Anonymous