"The writer's function is to prevent myths turning……" — Michel Tournier

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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
• 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,… — 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… — Henry Timrod
• The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and… — 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… — A. S. Byatt
• Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct -… — Neill Blomkamp
• Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of… — Milan Kundera
• A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the… — Allen Ginsberg

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