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“For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land more than me. He needed constant cultivation, or the fruit turned wild.”

Book:Only the Good Times

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“A man's words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to be identified with him. Out of the abundance of the heart, the man speaks. The foundational nature of all language is therefore metaphorical because every word a man speaks reveals himself—just as God reveals Himself through the Word. Every word spoken ultimately reveals the speaker.”

Language Speech Words Metaphor Spoken Word

Book:The Rhetoric Companion

Source: The Rhetoric Companion

“A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction. A ridge of lighted heath, alive, glancing, devouring, would have been a meet emblem of my mind when I accused and menaced Mrs. Reed: the same ridge, black and blasted after the flames are dead, would have represented as meetly my subsequent condition.”

Children Fire Anger Metaphor Fury

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“The Americans’ great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle has permeated their minds. As a practice, it stains all the way down to their souls.”

Love Religion Christianity Metaphor Souls Christian Fiction American Supply And Demand

Author:Geoffrey Wood

“The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what's commonly referred to as reality.”

Reality Truth Metaphor

Book:Beginner's Luke

Source: Beginner's Luke

“The man's emotions flowed back and forth like waves of the sea.”

Sea Emotions Metaphor Metaphorical

Book:Time of Attack

Source: Time of Attack

“And then the finale, its four modest notes. Do, re, fa, mi: half a jumbled scale. Too simple to be called invented. But the thing spills out into the world like one of those African antelopes that fall from the womb, still wet with afterbirth but already running.”

Music Metaphor

Author:Richard Powers

“Porque las metáforas […] son nuestra forma de leer el cuerpo, de interpretar todo lo extraño en nuestra fisiología.”

Body Metaphor Metaphors Cuerpo Metáfora

Book:Cuerpo extraño

Source: Cuerpo extraño

“Never question your ability to succeed. God created you and destined you to achieve great things. He blessed you with seeds of greatness that lie dormant within. The question you need to ask is, "What can I do in order to activate these seeds?”

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Book:The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success

Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success

“But that’s life right? It’s just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else gets a four, or a ten. It’s all in the draw and how you play it.”

Life Lessons Life Philosophy Metaphor Cards Ace Chasing Trains Mackenzie Herbert

Book:Chasing Trains

Source: Chasing Trains

“On entendait alors les véhicules cahoter encore dans la nuit d’été, avec leur chargement de fleurs et de morts.”

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Book:The Plague

Source: The Plague

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