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Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.

—Michelle Moran

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By now, we’re all familiar with the literary post-apocalyptic world’s metaphors. The zombies are our anxieties. The vampires are our greed. Our fairies are hope. Our werewolves are … what again? Something

—Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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(aside) Oh, you are well tuned now,But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music,As honest as I am.

—William Shakespeare

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…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.

—Brian Greene

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Dark-bright fire lit eyes

—Audre Lorde

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A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets,And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mintHad bundled itself in a stole of gray lint.

—David Rakoff

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The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.

—Diana Cochran

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Long before they had ever met, I think this destiny awaited them. They were not like ships passing in the night. It wasn’t like they didn’t understand each other. They understood each other better than...

—Gen Urobuchi

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At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims – gets used to the water – the wave grows...

—Jonathan Kellerman

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To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of some kind has frequently been helpful. For the photographer to free himself...

—Minor White

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It’s not always so easy,” she said softly.”Why not? It’s a part of who you are, isn’t it?” he asked with all the sympathy of an asp being prodded with a stick.

—Page Morgan

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She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad case of barrel envy.

—Patrick Major

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Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there’s plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, Mr Lawford.

—Walter de

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It was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk where book had been checked out in days when books were still being checked out. He stood there...

—Richard Matheson

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Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the...

—Paul Sabatier

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…I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the...

—Antonio R. Damasio

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Life’ wrote a friend of mine, ‘is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

—E.M. Forster

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It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive, when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

—George Eliot

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Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet.

—Faith Hunter

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They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

—Martin Luther

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It is like the panting of a thousand puppies.

—Jerry Spinelli

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The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other…they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are...

—Lauren Oliver

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wen thectaste of my own medicine is given to me results into silent treatment,its not bitter therefore i enjoy the medicine i gave you too.

—Mohlalefi j

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The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.

—Thomas Pynchon

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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

—Roberto Bolaño

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No more light answers. Let our officersHave note what we purpose. I shall breakThe cause of our expedience to the QueenAnd get her leave to part. For not aloneThe death of Fulvia, with more urgent...

—William Shakespeare

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But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.

—Ann Aguirre

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We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who’d just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite.

—Brandon Sanderson

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A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction....

—Charlotte Brontë

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Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability to learn what our unconscious conceptual systems are like and how our cognitive unconscious functions. If we do not realize that...

—George Lakoff

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Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game,...

—J.D. Salinger

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It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much...

—Malcolm X

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…a tall, gaunt man with small narrow eyes set deep in his skull like two old sisters trying to spy out of the windows of their house without being noticed themselves.

—Ned Beauman

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I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

—Naguib Mahfouz

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Hatred is as easy as slipping on a well-worn woolen cloak. If only it provided the comfort of one.

—Nenia Campbell

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Metaphor, everything is sort of Metaphor of something else.

—Sameh Elsayed

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…I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

—Robin Sloan

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What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the...

—Robert Hughes

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Being what we are, rational but also animate, amphibians who start from the world of sense and proceed through myth and metaphor to the world of spirit. I do not see how we could have...

—C.S. Lewis

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Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. -Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)

—Ani DiFranco

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For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

—George Eliot

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METAPHOR: A tightly fitting suit of metal, generally tin, which entirely encloses the wearer, both impeding free movement and preventing emotional expression and/or social contact.

—Chris Ware

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Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As the force of fate, this image acts as a personal daimon,...

—James Hillman

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But that’s life right? It’s just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else gets a four, or a ten. It’s all in the draw and how...

—Mackenzie Herbert

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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

—Khaled Hosseini

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I’m trying to keep you safe.” Safe as a porcelain bowl wrapped in cotton linen and boxed up. It would be a lie to say she didn’t want to feel safe, or that Nolan’s worry...

—Page Morgan

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Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

—Robert McKee

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The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn’t have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what’s...

—Sol Luckman

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… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having...

—Richard McSweeney

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Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain ironic skepticism.

—Veronica Hollinger

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