"Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?"

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Steig Larsson

#Metaphor Quotes

“Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.”
“I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.”
“All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot.”
“God did not direct His call to Isaiahâ€” Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear Godâ€™s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.”
“Hungry people make the best revolutionaries. Because when you're hungry, it's easy to get angry about things that aren't right.”
“And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. "And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.”
“Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.”
“Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy.”

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