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- To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and… — Thomas Browne
- Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile. — Edward Abbey
- After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does… — Jaron Lanier
- I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre,… — Gore Verbinski
- Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'. — Mark Gatiss
- My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off… — Will Self
- The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.' — Joss Whedon
- I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would… — Stephen Fry
- I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was… — Elizabeth Kostova
- In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look… — Matthew Weiner
- Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric:… — P.J. O'Rourke