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#metaphor

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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 to watch in Virginia, no budding woods or blooming gardens. There was only—spring itself; the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere: in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm, high wind—rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive and playful like a big puppy that pawed you and then lay down to be petted. If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.


Willa Cather


#nature #nature-s-beauty #prairie #similies #spring

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.


John Searle


#examples #extensions #find #i #ice

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.


John Searle


#adding #analogy #attribute #cars #cognitive

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.


J. Michael Straczynski


#again #before #folks #i #i think

Life is like a B-picture script.


Kirk Douglas


#life-metaphor #metaphor #life

That cloak of love you were wearing—he’s torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can you ever wear those shreds?


Antonia Michaelis


#love #metaphor #trust #love

Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson.


Richard Condon


#metaphor #love

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#love

Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.


Andrew Davidson


#metaphor #boredom






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