#simile

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#disappointment #epigrams #fandom #on-writing #similes

Kissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass. ↗

— George Saunders

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Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. ↗

— John Green

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I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside. ↗

— Vanora Bennett

#simile

Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#simile

My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#humor #simile #humor

A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty. ↗

— Andrew Wolfe

#inspirational #love #simile #truth #inspirational

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#simile #life

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#nails #similes #well-worn-phrases #christmas