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• Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

  Mason Cooley

  Events, Advantage, Certain

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• I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

  William H. Macy

  People, Junk, Way

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• The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

  William Rehnquist

  Wall, Church, Separation

  "Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38". The U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 4, 1985.

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• A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.

  P. D. James

  Expectations, Comfort, Essentials

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• Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

  Richard Whately

  Intellectual, Style, Energy

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• The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.

  F. L. Lucas

  Ideas, Two, Sides

  F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, Harriman House Limited

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• Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Real, Abuse, Identity

  1839 Letter to Henry Bulwer,1 Sep.

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• Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility.

  Philip Gerard

  Writing, Color, Voice

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• It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

  Rachel Hartman

  Rachel Hartman (2015). “Shadow Scale”, p.14, Random House

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• Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don’t decide how much and how deeply to love - you respond to the beloved, and give with joy exactly as much as they want.

  Marni Jackson

  Love You, Giving, Joy

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• It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.

  Theodora

  Animal, World, Fit

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• I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

  Hank Azaria

  Hate, Writing, Fans

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Dream, Morning

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• Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

  Ray Bradbury

  Stories, Comic, Motion Pictures

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• I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one that doesn't use colloquialisms, lyrical flourishes, heavy supplies of metaphor, etc., is a style, and it becomes a writer's characteristic style just as much as a thicker, richer deployment of idiom and vocabulary.

  Lydia Davis

  Believe, Vocabulary, Deployment

  Interview with Sarah Manguso, www.believermag.com. January 2008.

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• I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for it which I think is really true it's like building coral, you don't see it happening it's just little little little and when you step back you think wow.

  Karen Walker

  Thinking, Littles, Wow

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• If you take a glass of water and separate it from its source - the ocean - then pour the water away from its source and ask it to sustain life, it flitters away. It just evaporates. It can't sustain life. That's a metaphor for us when we separate ourselves from our source and believe that God is separate from us.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Ocean, Glasses

  "Become A Mighty Manifester An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Randy Peyser, www.randypeyser.com.

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• 50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.

  Curtis Jackson

  Names, Projects, Forts

  Source: www.daveyd.com

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• I'm not the 'rappity-rapper' type dude. All my music is really true. I can't just rap about nothing, just metaphors and putting words together. I can't just smash out material like other guys. I just want my albums to be crazy every time I drop one.

  Schoolboy Q

  Crazy, Rap, Guy

  Source: www.acclaimmag.com

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• Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Art, Wine, Emotional

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• I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Rainy Day, Thinking, Air

  Interview with Scholastic students, www.scholastic.com. 2002.

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• A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Horse, Names, Two

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• Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament.

  Ruben Martinez

  Biblical, Immigration, Desert

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I read about in the grocery store tabloids my mom bought, situations that struck me as compelling, anecdotes I'd heard, images, words, metaphors.

  Dan Chaon

  Mom, Writing, Everyday

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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• Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

  Rae Armantrout

  Sacrifice, Looks, Homeopathy

  Rae Armantrout (2010). “Versed”, p.93, Wesleyan University Press

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