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«It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.»
Author: George Steiner
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
| Keywords:
against the rules, borrowed, cultures, era, historical, historical sense, literal, mirrors, mirror image, mythology, New Era, regress, tests
«By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it»
Author: Joseph Collins
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Emotion
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discouraged, encouraged, holier-than-thou, holier, humorless, literal, perfume, reformatories, reformatory, repress, repressing, rigid, starving, stereotype, stereotyped, stereotyping
«The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. Whem they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'»
Author: Michael Stipe
(Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
do it yourself, ethic, literal, O.K., ok, punk, punks
«Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.»
«Poets are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.»
«I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for ME.»
«NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama. Unity, totality of effect, is impossible; for besides the few pages last read all that is carried in mind is the mere plot of what has gone before. To the romance the novel is what photography is to painting. Its distinguishing principle, probability, corresponds to the literal actuality of the photograph and puts it distinctly into the category of reporting; whereas the free wing of the romancer enables him to mount to such altitudes of imagination as he may be fitted to attain; and the first three essentials of the literary art are imagination, imagination and imagination. The art of writing novels, such as it was, is long dead everywhere except in Russia, where it is new. Peace to its ashes --some of which have a large sale.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
actualities, actuality, altitude, bearing, category, composition, corresponds, distinctly, distinguishing, efface, effaced, effaces, effacing, essentials, First Impressions, fitted, impressions, in Russia, literal, Literary Art, literary composition, Long To, mount, novels, pad, padded, pads, pages, panorama, plot, probability, relation to, reporting, Russia, sale, short stories, short story, successive, successively, The Impressions, the novel, The short story, three parts, totality, wing
«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 in the midst of society.»
«How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
alteration, alterations, anomalies, anomaly, comes out, literal, So What, The Re
«Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
indeed, kills, letter, literal, Makers, rendering, The Letter, The Makers, The Spirit, translations, weaken, weakening, woe
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