"But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me."
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"[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."
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"I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question."
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"A creed is an ossified metaphor."
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"Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal."
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"You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them."
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"It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't."
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"Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom"
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"It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor."
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"I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality."
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"Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness."
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"Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that."
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"We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being."
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"But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead."
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"Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections."
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"Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust."
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"He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him."
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"I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes."
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"Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth."
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"What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!"
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