#metaphor

My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#memory #metaphor #mothers #humor

Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#fantasy #literary-criticism #metaphors #tolkien #writing

Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#simile #simile

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#determine #help #how #key #metaphors

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes. ↗

— Avi Arad

#again #being #books #bothered #dealing

Science is all metaphor. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#science

I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#religion #dreams

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#hunger #men #metaphors #twitter #women

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. ↗

— John le Carre

#average #conspiratorial #daily #daily life #employer

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#appetites #applied #delight #favorite #kinds