Top Literalism Quotes

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

Of course, when you shut off your brain from rational analysis, book is dangerous. Taking literally ancient parables from thousands of years ago is much more dangerous than playing with a loaded gun....

Literalism Definition

(n.) That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.

(n.) The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization.

As if somehow irony, she recaps for Maxine, as practiced by a giggling mincing fifth column, actually brought on the events of 11 September, by keeping the country insufficiently serious — weakening i...