"Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in."

-- Florence King

#Metaphor Quotes

“Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.”
“One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.”
“I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.”
“I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.”

Source : "Heather Matarazzo: ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ changed my life". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 22, 2011.
“Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.”

Source : Anthony Ryan (2013). “Blood Song: Book 1 of Raven's Shadow”, p.333, Hachette UK
“Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.”
“And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.”

Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.17, Anza Publishing
“Your worst mistakes is actually your best advice.”

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