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“But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor.”

Book:Children of Las Vegas: True Stories of Growing up in the World's Playground

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“The birds are literal representations of the witnesses of those ordinary and big moments, but they are also metaphors for time itself, for the passing of time. It occurred to me, many years after I had been here, thinking about this idea, that every moment we have with one another is really our only moment, and because of that our every moment could potentially be a goodbye, so we have to notice and notice and notice.”

Metaphor Presence Notice

Book:Everything You Say Is Goodbye

Source: Everything You Say Is Goodbye

“in our culture, women can do anything a man can. and vice versa." don alfonso's eyebrows shot up. "i do not believe it." "it's true," sally said defiantly. "in America, the women hunt while the men have babies?”

Metaphor Gender Equality Bs

Book:The Codex

Source: The Codex

“You will fall along the way, but if you refuse to be a failure, you will gather the strength to get up and work hard until you become a success.”

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Book:The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success

Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success

“Running wild in a field of exclamations, chasing question marks”

Thinking Curiosity Metaphor Questioning

Author:Natasha Tsakos

“When did we all become fluent in this language that none of us wanted to learn?”

Metaphor Deep Thoughts Asking For It

Book:Asking For It

Source: Asking For It

“The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.”

War Threat Soldier Metaphor Blindness Ruta Sepetys Salt To The Sea Ingrid Joana

Book:Salt to the Sea

Source: Salt to the Sea

“Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.”

Drama Speech Perception Metaphor Theatre Self Knowledge Antiquity Masks

Book:Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.”

Reading Metaphor Henry James Boring Books

Author:W.B. Yeats

“As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake.” “Wow...,” I breathed. She frowned at me. “That was a great metaphor,” I said. “Oh please.” “I need to write that down,” I said, ignoring her complaints, fishing for my new mobile to type it out.”

Blind Metaphor Man Accurate Write Mobile During Earthquake Pissing

Book:Firefight

Source: Firefight

“...you must understand that not even the Jedi know all there is to be known about the Force; no mortal mind can. We speak of the will of the Force as someone ignorant of gravity might say it is the will of a river to flow to the ocean; it is a metaphor that describes our ignorance. The simple truth - if any truth is ever simple - is that we do not truly know what the will of the Force may be. We can never know. It is so far beyond our limited understanding that we can only surrender to its mystery.”

Truth Mystery Ignorance Metaphor Gravity Jedi The Force Obi Wan Kenobi Simple Truth Old Ben Surrender To Mystery The Will Of The Force

Book:Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Source: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

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