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Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-”flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.

Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-”flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.
– Thomas C Foster

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  3. It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation. – Paul Louis Couchoud
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  7. it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. – Muriel Spark
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  9. The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  10. Every known thing used to be unknownAnd every rock could become a stone Someday nature will have to atone When soul sees dead flesh leaving the bone – Munia Khan
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  13. Like a flame burning away the darknessLife is flesh on bone convulsing above the ground. – E Elias Merhige
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  20. If the spirit lusts against the flesh, work so that you can gain the victory over the flesh – Sunday Adelaja
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  35. Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past. – Paul Kearney
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  37. Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood. – L Frank Baum
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  39. There’s no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There’s only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof. – Alan Moore
  40. The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop. – Saul Bellow

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