#metaphor

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. ↗

— Paul de Man

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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. ↗

— Walter Mosley

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Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It's a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

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Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature. ↗

— Robert Redford

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You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story. ↗

— Robert Redford

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The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply. ↗

— Anne Rice

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I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor. ↗

— Robert Redford

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The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. ↗

— Florence King

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