Quotes About Literary Maps

#1. Individualism. Campbell said, "All religions are true in that the metaphor is true." I think this means that religions are meant to be literary maps, not literal doctrines, a signpost to the unknowable, a hymn to the inconceivable. Edward Slingerland is a professor

Russell Brand

#2. Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

Thomas Paine

#3. The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. They will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing;

Marshall McLuhan

#5. It's the same old story," he would say, years later; "the inventor gets the experience, and the capitalist gets the invention.

Tim Wu

#6. The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.

Steve Wozniak

#7. But would a high school romance really be worth sacrificing our friendship? No. We were better off friends.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#8. I hate not managing to speak clearly. I really hate it. I get a feeling of claustrophobia - like I'm locked in my own head - if what I've said hasn't reached someone.

Alice Oswald

#9. I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

Carice Van Houten

#10. BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused.

Peter Welch

#11. I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

Laura Marling

#12. It's your own fault for being so camera-ready, I tell Gale. If looks could kill.

Suzanne Collins