Cassandra ClareIf there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.
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It is certainly true that kids are very literal. But there's another kind of literalism growing in our culture right now, which is the literalism of the majority. The majority takes its decisions, its beliefs, and its actions not from reason or logic but from sheer numbers. It's the majority that wants to regulate speech, criminalize thought, and force everyone to speak in one voice.
The majority that wants to call "truth" whatever it feels like at any given moment. The majority that wants to say that truth is whatever can be proven by facts or data, instead of what actually is true.
Source: City Of Bones
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