The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. — Socrates Copy Share Image
A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it. — Eileen Atkins Copy Share Image
“Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“My mother always said that I would come to a bad end but I never thought she meant this - writing allegory… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
“Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Each grass from a lifeless grain is bred, Else to harvest no wheat were won: Always from good is good begun. So… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that the reality of life is best expressed through allegory that transcends...well, the reality of life. Fantasy is the… — Brea Nicole Bond Copy Share Image
“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Adelaide remembered the first storm Justinius had seen her through. She had seen many storms since then, some milder than others, some… — Valerie Howard Copy Share Image
“She seemed to exist in a kind of allegory, and having these shapes about her, claimed my interest so strongly, that (as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth. — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“a thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth” — Leah Wilson Copy Share Image
If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge,… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
“No story can be devised by the wit of man which cannot be interpreted allegorically by the wit of some other man.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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