"Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread, into some boring version of what we already know. So what you say is true, in that the bear is a kind of parallel to the speaker, or imagined as such, but also very different. So if it's a symbol it is - ahem - a polysemous one."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Matthew Zapruder

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“Those who have loved are those that have found God”
“But once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, and he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again.”

Source : Susan Cooper (2001). “The Boggart”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
“People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
“Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.”
“I liked to scrapbook and collage a whole lot in high school. Im always ripping things out of magazines, and always collecting quotes from the Internet. When I was 17, I loved AIM. I was obsessed with my buddy list!”
“The kind of women I'm interested in - they're smart enough.”
“...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.”
“Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.”

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