"Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts."

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Source : Paul De Man (1979). “Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust”, p.5, Yale University Press

Paul de Man

#Facts Quotes #Metaphor Quotes

“I've never been ambitious about recording”
“Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.”

Source : Love & Death: A Study in Censorship (1949)
“I know people are pretty well embarrassed just at the mention of colon cancer. Sticking a tube in you to find out what's wrong is not a nice thing. But I can tell them, a 30- or 40-minute test is worth it. We have to make them feel more comfortable about getting screened.”
“He [Mitt Romney] didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain, but obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?”
“Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.”

Source : 1990 Of Cromwell's settlement of Scots in the north of Ireland. A NewYork Life.
“We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.”

Source : Robert Schumann (1983). “On Music and Musicians”, p.45, Univ of California Press
“Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.”
“I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it's made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to alumni, doesn't it? It sort of represents the school. It's when you go back; it's at the beginning of the school year.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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