"There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street."
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"Censorship is the mother of metaphor."
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"Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with."
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"Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition."
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"It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke."
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"I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it."
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"The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor."
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"A metaphor is like a simile."
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"I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex."
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"Everything in life is a metaphor."
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"Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print."
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"All that is transitory is but a metaphor."
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"It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors."
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"Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech."
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"A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol."
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"Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace."
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"An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature."
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"Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head."
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"Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work."
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"I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form."
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