“An allusion is something we refuse to see, but we see what we want to see…” — Edna Stewart Copy Share Image
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.” — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
“Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it. — K. Flay Copy Share Image
British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Pünd remembered their first case together when Fraser had failed to notice that his travelling companion, on the three-fifty train from Paddington,… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this,… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power… — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
I don't really like to work with literary allusions very much. I never want to be in a position where I'm saying,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“Allusion is lovely, and experience with other forms of writing brings the ability to use that device pervasively. This in turn sets… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of… — William James Copy Share Image
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction…Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life.… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
“Airplane Dream #13' told the story, more or less, of a dream Rosa had had about the end of the world. There… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Little gusts of sunshine blew, strangely bright, and lit up the celandines at the wood's edge, under the hazel-rods, they spangled out… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented. — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I… — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
When I die Bookchinism comes to an end, and all the allusions to it both among Marxists and anarchists. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions. — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is… — Jessica Helfand Copy Share Image
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
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