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Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of use is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.


Susan Sontag


#metaphor #life

Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.


Matt Simpson


#life #living #metaphor #life

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.


Northrop Frye


#literature #metaphor #writing #education

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.


Gustave Flaubert


#metaphor #life

putriku menaiki lidah petir. membangunkan setiap raksasa malas. mengejarnya hingga sudutsudut kebun hidup. menggambar pertentangan dan kehancuran.


Dorothea Rosa Herliany


#life #metaphor #play #life

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.


Annie Dillard


#metaphor #science #sea-lion #snail #systems-analyst

The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections.


Naomi Klein


#democracy

The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.


Patrick Jones


#different #metaphor #rebels #wisdom #authority

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.


Dorothy Gambrell


#librarian #library #metaphor #television #television

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.


Orson Scott Card


#least #metaphors #most #space #truth






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