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“After that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air. Every morning I wakened with a fresh consciousness that winter was over. There were none of the signs of spring for which I used ...”
“He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there”
“Where to start?Everything cracks and shakes,The air trembles with similes,No one world's better than another;the earth moans with metaphors.”
“The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.”
“The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man”
“My mother once wrote a poem about rivers. They were women, she wrote. Starting out small girls, tiny streams decorated with wildflowers. They were torrents, gouging paths through sheer granite, fli...”
“They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.”
“The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what's commonly re...”
“A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.”
“Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in put...”
“Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.”
“The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...”
“In poetry, the best way to say cuss words is to hide it behind metaphors.”
“The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a neuron's inputs and its targets support ...”
“You're a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious."-”
“For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.”
“The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water.”
“Time is the moving image of eternity.”
“Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the river, the thrill of rapids, never comprehending your utter lack of control, yo...”
“Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.”
