"There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing."

-- Jennifer Egan

#Way Quotes #Metaphor Quotes

“The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.”
“We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.”
“A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker
“The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's the person who knew what to look for. And cultivating that capacity to seek what's significant, always willing to question whether you're on the right track - that's what education is going to be about, whether it's using computers and the Internet, or pencil and paper, or books.”
“Let's go sit and hate a bunch of people.”

Source : Horace McCoy (2011). “They Shoot Horses, Don't They?”, p.13, Profile Books
“Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.”
“The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, has traditionally been unable to survive at altitudes higher than 1,000 meters because of colder temperatures there. But with recent warming trends, those mosquitoes have now been reported at 1,240 meters in Costa Rica and at 2,200 meters in Columbia. Malaria-bearing mosquitoes, too, have moved to higher elevations in central Africa, Asia, and parts of Latin America, triggering new outbreaks of the disease.”
“Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.”

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