#liter

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#comprehension #great #lack #literally #meant

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#any #i #later #literature #make

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#disease #fear #happiness #help #i

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#computer-generated #divorced #down #guy #instrument

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#best #best part #cigar #deprives #good

Now I literally roll out of bed and put on whatever is there. I have really enjoyed being a boy this last year. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#being #boy #enjoyed #i #last

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#certain #created #did #even #ever

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. ↗

— Yann Martel

#gives #great #hard #literary #literary work

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. ↗

— Karl Marx

#being #gregarious #human #human being #itself

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#i #i do #literally #me #paint