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- Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be… — Herman Melville
- I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig
- 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
- A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind. — Laurie Cabot
- Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep… — Henry Timrod
- The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier
- The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues… — William Howard Taft
- Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin
- There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating… — A. S. Byatt
- Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not… — Neill Blomkamp
- Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves… — Milan Kundera
- A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness. — Allen Ginsberg