"I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish."

-- Bernard Malamud

#Two Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Metaphor Quotes

“There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.”
“Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.”
“Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.”
“Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?”
“You know that scene at the beginning (of 'Pirate Radio') where I take The Count a cup of tea in the studio, and he shakes my hand, gives me a hug, and slaps me on the arse? That's genuinely the first time Tom Sturridge met Philip Seymour Hoffman. Literally, I'd hadn't seen him or exchanged words with him before. Richard just called me on set and said, 'Take him a cup of tea.' So that's what I did. And the smile of delight as he slaps me on the arse is purely mine.”
“A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.147, Open Road Media
“Many doctors spend their time looking For the symptoms of illness, Rarely acknowledging that illness is itself a symptom.”
“Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.”

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