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“There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret so dirty that he knows he never will get rid of it. (Shakespeare knew this and tried to say it, but ...”
“Ella!" the voice yells, but I cannot tell where it is coming from. The sound wraps around me, spreading like spilt water and then evaporating into silence.”
“Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.”
“Could any State on Earth Immortall be,Venice by Her rare Goverment is She;Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd,Though by the warrlikst Potentats assayed;Yet She retaines Her Virgin-waters pur...”
“Science is all metaphor.”
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
“What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!”
“Carlyle had come fluttering to the flame, lured by the false invitation Dominic had sent in Eloise's name and lured, too, by Eloise's conclusion that J.E.D.D. Mason was something not unlike a mirac...”
“Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.”
“A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.”
“The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the associative word light with meanings. The word not netted by meaning. The exact word ...”
“METAPHOR: A tightly fitting suit of metal, generally tin, which entirely encloses the wearer, both impeding free movement and preventing emotional expression and/or social contact.”
“Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain”
“Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs, but, disembodied, she did not know the diff...”
“He finds himself entering a minefield of dietary choices." My Dark Experiences With Gluten”
“It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.”
“They were coming back to his mother's neighborhood now, the eastern boundary of which was a bridge spanning a know of train tracks that cut through the city like a zipper.”
“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.”
“No more kissing beneath bridges?"Her face heated. She turned to go only to have him catch her sleeve. It was a risk, having such long sleeves."Why don't we both stay back here? No one will miss us ...”
