Allegory famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Everything for me becomes allegory
-- Charles Baudelaire

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Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Mold #Allegory
I don't like allegory.
-- China Mieville

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The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.
-- Michel Tournier

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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
-- Naguib Mahfouz

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There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
-- Stanley Kubrick

#Personality #Enigma #Allegory
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.
-- Walter Benjamin

#Ruins #Realms #Allegory
Allegory dwells in a transparent palace.
-- Antoine-Marin Lemierre

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Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.
-- Jeff Smith

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It never occurs to Arnold that the ball won't go in the hole, but I'm always surprised when it does.
My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.
I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?
One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.
We look at all the polls, not just the Gallup Poll. So, it's kind of like if you have, you know, four out of five doctors agree that reducing cholesterol reduces your risk of a heart attack, Gallup is like the fifth doctor.
The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.
Beautyâ€™s all around me right here. Itâ€™s not in a textbook. Itâ€™s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight â€¦ The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.
I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.