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Metaphor  Quotes
Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn’t for its shock I’d stick to the easy catch of prose.

—David Joseph Cribbin

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A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.

—David Joseph Cribbin

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Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.

—Richard Kadrey

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In times like these I always cheered myself up with a certain story. I forgot just when I first heard it, or who I heard it from… but, back when I was young it would...

—Nobuyuki Fukumoto

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[Francesca] ‘You really are a few biscuits short of breakfast.’His eyebrows furrowed in confusion.’You’re a few colors shy of a rainbow?’ she offered. ‘Not pulling a full wagon? Knitting with only one needle? All foam...

—Blake Charlton

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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Anne tried to bite her tongue, but she was finding her mouth bloody too often.

—Janice Lane

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In asking philosophical questions, we use a reason shaped by the body, a cognitive unconscious to which we have no direct access, and metaphorical thought of which we are largely unaware. The fact that abstract...

—George Lakoff

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it’s colder than a witch’s tit in a steel bra

—David Levithan

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Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar

—Jim Butcher

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She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

—Mae West

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Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom…

—John Milton

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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

—Joseph Campbell

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Our metaphors for the operation of the brain are frequently drawn from the production line. We think of the brain as a glorified sausage machine, taking in information from the senses, processing it and regurgitating...

—Steve Grand

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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

—Thomas Fuller

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It’s a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all “sisters” and “brothers.”Let’s be real. Fact is, we might be better served to accept that we are all siblings.Siblings fight, pull each...

—Vera Nazarian

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Not all beaches are fun and sunscreen.

—Bryant A.

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Holly steps back. Being warned about a ghost and seeing him are not the same. ‘What did they do to you?’Some of the Anchorites laugh. Hugo looks back at his long-ago lover. ‘They’-he looks about...

—David Mitchell

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If a tree is bent, every goat will jump on it.

—Eva Stachniak

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Invisible prose only!” rules out the sparkling style of [writers]. . . For [whom] vivid prose, and the visionary mind it evinces, rich with speculation, insight, and subjectivity, is the craft and offers a unique...

—Diane Ackerman

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And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.

—Gustave Flaubert

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I’ve simplified much more in my writing. I say what I’ve got to say, not in metaphor.

—Marianne Faithfull

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The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

—Ken Bruen

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Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives.Poke knew that, though. Bean warned her, and she knew it, but she chose Achilles for their...

—Orson Scott

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Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.All are continually asking, “What does this represent? What does it stand for?”They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When...

—Steven Pressfield

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If there is anything in writing that comes easy for me it’s making up metaphors. They just appear. I can’t move two lines without all kinds of images. Then the problem is how to make...

—william gass

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Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer...

—Susan Sontag

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I don’t know. I only know that there are those whose minds I can speak with that, when I show them how, speak back to my mind as well.

—Tom Larcombe

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…I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.

—Alan Bradley

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The Americans’ great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle has permeated their minds. As a practice, it stains all the way down...

—Geoffrey Wood

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One of the things that happens a lot is you get to see how many times things happen, literal things happen and how they are completely metaphors for where you are. It’s like a mirror...

—Cheryl Strayed

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You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you

—John Green

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Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure...

—Neal Shusterman

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The humanoids told Don that if he went home with a whore, she would cook him a meal of petroleum and coal products at fancy prices. And then, while he ate them, she would talk...

—Kurt Vonnegut

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las petites morts”: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.

—Nenia Campbell

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After that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air. Every morning I wakened with a fresh consciousness that winter was over. There were none of the signs of spring for which...

—Willa Cather

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It’s like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?

—Stephen King

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But what he didn’t understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm’s length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I didn’t care if they sang to me.All I wanted was...

—Sarah Dessen

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I’m going to be frank, Max…””Of course. All cards on the table.” But he gave me a poker smile.

—Alfred Alcorn

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The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way

—Carl Henegan

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Everything was a metaphor; all things were something other than themselves. The pain, for example, was an ocean, and he was adrift on it. His body was a city and his mind a citadel. All...

—Iain M.

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In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.

—George Lakoff

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I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.

—Haruki Murakami

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Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.

—Matt Simpson

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It´s a metaphor: you see, you put the killing thing right between your teeth,you just don’t give it the power to do it’s killing.

—Jonh Green

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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.

—Sarah Hall

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Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply...

—Swami Vivekananda

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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

—Virginia Woolf

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lit” each lantern lamp must tap into the universal Source of energy.If the link is weak, depression and-or illness sets in.If the link is strong, life persists.This metaphor to me best illustrates the universe.

—Vera Nazarian

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