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• Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others… — Francois Magendie
• Thou hast the most unsavoury similes. — William Shakespeare
• Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from… — Ernest Hemingway
• We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of… — Martin Luther
• Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like… — Honore de Balzac
• When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his… — Anton Chekhov
• By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only… — George Orwell
• From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter… — Lewis H. Lapham
• Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the… — Dan Simmons
• Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. — Robert South
• A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes. — Dean Koontz
• Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data… — Charles Petzold

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