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literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
metaphor insight supreme
Any supreme insight is a metaphor. Charles Henry Parkhurst
metaphor masters
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. Aristotle
metaphor halfway commonplace
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
metaphor red state
Branson is a metaphor for red state America, Robert Schmuhl
metaphor dictionary
The dictionary contains no metaphors. Paul Ricoeur
metaphor pretentious
You live for pretentious metaphors. John Green
metaphor prisoner
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking... R. Buckminster Fuller
metaphor strain
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. Florence King
metaphor humans human-thought
Early human thought proceeded by metaphor, Gerald Edelman
slang downtrodden creator
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. Anthony Burgess
slang vigorous
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang. John Galsworthy
slang streams
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang. Gilbert K. Chesterton