"There is, in fact, not much point in……" — Anthony Burgess

"There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition"

— Anthony Burgess

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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies… — Herman Melville
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A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it. — Eileen Atkins
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Haruki Murakami
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
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The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination.… — Friedrich Schiller
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig

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