"For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them."
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"The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself."
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"With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist."
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"You live for pretentious metaphors."
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"Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth."
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