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• Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

  Dorothea Tanning

  Art, Different, Purpose

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• Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Culture, Alive

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.72, Anchor

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• Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.

  Karan Bajaj

  New York, Character, Journey

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Writing, Past, Mind

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• Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you

  Leyla Zana

  Kindness, Fire, Burning

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• No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

  Barry Mann

  Running, Song, Musician

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• Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Music, Math, Scent

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• Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.

  Donna Brazile

  Running, Tough Times, African American

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• The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.

  Arturo Rosenblueth

  Math, Vigilance, Eternal

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• We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

  J. T. Walsh

  Materials

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• The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Real, Consistency, Planes

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.77, A&C Black

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• If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

  Roger Zelazny

  Art, Thinking, Engaging

  Roger Zelazny (1983). “Unicorn Variations”, Pocket Books

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• Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing. ...metaphors support lyrics like bones.

  Pat Pattison

  Writing, Support, Creative

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• Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these brief stories, your emotional intelligence and mindfulness will develop effortlessly from the insights they provide.

  Polly Young-Eisendrath

  Emotional, Roots, Imagination

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• The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Symbols

  "Science and human values". Book by Jacob Bronowski, 1975.

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• I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the scientifically correct, but I am unrepentant because metaphors are more than ever needed for a widespread comprehension of the true nature of the Earth and an understanding of the lethal dangers that lie ahead.

  James Lovelock

  Lying, Book, Understanding

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• The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

  Dennis Potter

  Writing, Speech, Leap

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• The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

  Alvin Toffler

  Errors, Recognition, Possibility

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• Hope is a song in a weary throat.

  Pauli Murray

  Inspirational, Hope, Song

  Pauli Murray (1970). “Dark testament: and other poems”

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• Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Animal, Schemas

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

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• Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Moving, Self, House

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Somebody is waiting on the other side of your obedience.

  Tim Storey

  Religious, Jesus, Entrepreneur

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• Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Dangerous

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• You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

  Amanda Peet

  Motherhood, Oxygen, Mask

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• Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'.

  William James

  Science, Expression, Talking

  The Principles of Psychology vol. 1, ch. 9 (1890).

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