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“The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.”

Mean Different Used Speak Term Consciousness Cases Mankind Objects Thrown Different Things Speakers Eloquence Literary Terms

Book:Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

“I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Trying Believe Has Beens Term Space Illusion Could Have Been Literary Terms

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with all the sonorities of phrase and summits of thought; and the other who digs and scratches for truth all he can, who is as interested in the little facts as the big ones, who would like to make you feel materially the things he reproduces.”

Feels Littles Art Two Character Facts Bigs Artist Literature Term Taken Phrases Soar Scratches Summit Roaring Literary Terms

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.”

Has Beens Term Events Mere Metaphor Literary Terms

Book:Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

“The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant . What art can do is make the extraordinary more ordinary and ordinary more extraordinary.”

People Writing Long Art Term Can Do Ordinary Extraordinary Insignificant Ordinary People Literary Terms

Author:Robert Dessaix

“I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice, but I don't think comics see it like a character in a novel.”

Thinking Character Voice Term Novel Stage Elements Developing Persona Comedic Literary Terms

Author:Ted Alexandro

“Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In live television, you wrote much more vertically. You had to probe people because you didn't have money or sets or any of the physical dimensions that film will allow you. So you generally probed people a little bit more. Film writing is much more horizontal. You can insert anything you want: meadows, battlefields, the Taj Mahal, a cast of thousands. But essentially, writing a story is writing a story.”

“There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.”

Character Belief Term Mistake Opinion Novel Idiot Opinions And Beliefs Literary Terms

Author:Larry Niven