"Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise."
"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."
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Source: Thomas C. Foster (2009). “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”, p.17, Harper Collins
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