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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
My fans have always loved my metaphors.
We use metaphors to express our own truths.
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
I guess I have a weird habit of writing body part metaphors.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!
The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.
Better to say something simply instead of giving people a bunch of vague metaphors to mull over.
Lil Wayne, that was one of my main influences, music-wise, because of his wordplay and metaphors.
The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.
Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.
Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.
Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.
I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.
Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.
Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality.
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.
When you are trying to express things with metaphors and much more subtlety, that's when you are doing yourself a disservice by making a video.
I never think in metaphors or fully make those kind of associations myself. I just lay down a complex situation and hope things arise from that.
Instinct is still important, but now I can easily identify problems like cliches and mixed metaphors, and I have a broader palette to work off of.
The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
Every sense has the power to transport us through time, but it's taste I find the most mysterious, and writing about it often results in tortured metaphors.
The reason I keep making so many musical metaphors with 'Luke Cage' is that I don't view it as much a television show as I do a concept album with dialogue.
Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really quickly. I'm in awe of a Charles Schulz.
I'm surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take note of who hides their origins and who shows them off.
For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.
It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.
I think rap in general allows you to be more lyrically expressive. It's a lot easier to state your identity, as opposed to with a guitar making all these weird metaphors.
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.
Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.
If, in the very first pages, I'm forced to read gratuitous phrases or banal metaphors, I won't be able to get inside the story. Only if the sentences 'sparkle' can I get hooked.
When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put it up on a T-ball stand so she can hit it out of the park.'
My husband was 50; I was in my late 30s. We had lived adulthoods that did not include infants, except as metaphors. And then, like so many in today's America, we had a baby in later life.
