“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
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music. — Jamila Woods 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
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 human egg is a Mrs. Bennet, desperate to marry off her daughters...It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sperm must… — Daryl Gregory 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
It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions… — Howard Jacobson 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
“Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“They weren't kicked out of the Garden of Eden because of their thirst for knowledge; they developed their thirst for knowledge by… — Michael Walterich Copy Share Image
“I deplored silence. I deplored stillness. I hated almost everything. I was very unhappy and angry all the time. I tried to… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
