"A metaphor cannot be paraphrased"

-- Percival Everett

#Metaphor Quotes #Paraphrased Quotes

“Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.”
“The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.”

Source : Karen Horney (2013). “The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time”, p.15, Routledge
“The longer we remain in Iraq the more our occupation becomes part of the problem... rather than the solution.”
“I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them.”
“There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.”
“You come there and hang out and have a drink before the show and eat, so it's not that brutal. It's only $6.”
“I have a lot of friends and family that have suffered because of the church's judgment; my best friend in the world is gay. I felt a lot of people around me drawing lines in the sand, and that year I decided: I don't want to draw lines and have to be on one side or the other, but if someone's going to push me to one or the other side of the line, I'm going to stand on the side of those being judged because that's where I feel Jesus meets people.”

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