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Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors. — Osip Mandelstam
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television? — Chuck Palahniuk
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example:… — Jorge Luis Borges
(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've… — Ray Bradbury
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing. — Jennifer Egan
Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. — Jeanette Winterson
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many… — Neil Gaiman
Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies, we fall in… — Paul Auster
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell
Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric,… — Naomi Wolf
You live for pretentious metaphors. — John Green
Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the gay, with thrill. — Khalil Gibran
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still… — Edwidge Danticat
Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from? — Steig Larsson
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically… — Friedrich Nietzsche
[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It… — Amitav Ghosh
What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded.… — Angela Carter
She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. — Mahmoud Darwish
Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a… — Ted Dekker
Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true. — William P. Young
Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist. — Richelle Mead
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not… — C.S. Lewis

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