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Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

Rachel Cohn
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It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors. by Rachel Hartman

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

Rachel Hartman
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Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no mo... by Rachel Hartman

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

Rachel Hartman
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Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaph... by Rae Armantrout

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

Rae Armantrout
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Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head. by Ray Bradbury

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

Ray Bradbury
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You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them. by Ray Bradbury

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

Ray Bradbury
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Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

Ray Bradbury
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I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

Ray Bradbury
young-writersmetaphorgiving
The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, by Richard Lederer

The most colossal display of wise, inspiring,

Richard Lederer
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Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist. by Richelle Mead

Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.

Richelle Mead
metaphorcostartist
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor... by Robert Anton Wilson

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

Robert Anton Wilson
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let l... by Robert Frost

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

Robert Frost
metaphorsafeworld
Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanati... by Robert Breault

Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.

Robert Breault
metaphorskynight

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.

Robert Genn
metaphorlightopportunity

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

Robert Hass
metaphorstoriesideas
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. by Robert McKee

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

Robert McKee
metaphorlife-isstories
You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perc... by Robert Shaw

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

Robert Shaw
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I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in go... by Robert Redford

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

Robert Redford
metaphorfilmgolf

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

Robert Winston
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Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealin... by Robin Morgan

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

Robin Morgan
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