Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it… — Thomas Jefferson 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
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of… — Laurie Green Westlake Copy Share Image
“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it… — Susan Sontag 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
Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
We each create a story - a narritive, a picture, an allegory, a model - for what's going on in the universe.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“What does Éloa mean?” He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name of an angel.” Penelope tilted her head, thinking.… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful. — Joseph Addison 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
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
