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• Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, True Friend, Mind Your Own Business

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.67, Anchor

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• A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.

  Neil Postman

  Perception, Ornaments, World

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• Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

  Peter Cochrane

  Teacher, Children, Writing

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• The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Gratitude, Future, Responsibility

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• Science is all metaphor.

  Timothy Leary

  Science, Scientist

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• Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

  Florence King

  Writing, Strain

  "The Florence King Reader". Book by Florence King, 1995.

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• A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Eye, Police, Should

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 91, 1799.

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• All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Literature, Slang, Metaphors Of Life

  Defendant (1901) "Defence of Slang"

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• The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

  Northrop Frye

  Jobs, Two, Mind

  Northrop Frye (1996). “Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The educated imagination and other writings on critical theory 1933-1963”

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• I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

  Bernard Malamud

  Two, Sometimes, Fishes

  1975 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• A metaphor is like a simile.

  Steven Wright

  Humor, Simile

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• It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

  John Green

  Real, Giving, Teeth

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.230, Penguin

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• The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Real, Mean

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• Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

  Michaela DePrince

  Flower, Differences, Fields

  "Four Young Ballerinas Celebrate Dancers Of Color Who Inspire Them" by Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2017.

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• What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, People, Host

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

  Dean Koontz

  Vocabulary, Going Away, Trying

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• My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teaching, Writing, Happy Life

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• When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.

  Frank Fools Crow

  Spiritual, Native American, Power

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• I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Ideas, Faces, Arbitrary

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• In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

  Sam Snead

  Running, Golf, Track

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• Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  God, Baby, Children

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• I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.

  Serena Williams

  Track, Middle, Standing

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• Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Dream, Memories

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• Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Life, People, Stopping

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• Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

  Edvard Grieg

  Music, Art, Home

  Edvard Grieg, Richard Yates (2010). “Edvard Grieg: 16 Lyric Pieces”, p.36, Mel Bay Publications

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