“Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.”
United States of Banana (2011)
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American actor and author 1955Related quotes
“I don’t want to be a simile anymore, I want to be a metaphor.”
Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 24 (p. 296)
"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Context: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
“A writer without confidence is like a metaphor without something to compare itself to.”
Neil Simon
(1927–2018) playwright, writer, academic
Rewrites (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996) p. 105
“Their minds were sudden merchants: metaphor, like money, equalised the incommensurable.”
Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 27 (p. 312)
Max, Act I, scene I.
Often misquoted as "The days of the digital watch are numbered."
The Real Thing (1982)