“Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom”
Gustave Flaubert book November
Source: November
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
“Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom”
Gustave Flaubert book November
Source: November
Morton Feldman (1926–1987) American avant-garde composer
Quoted in Remembrance by Tom Johnson (September 1987)
Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
G. K. Chesterton book The Defendant
" A Defense of Slang http://books.google.com/books?id=8WpaAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;all+slang+is+metaphor+and+all+metaphor+is+poetry&quot;&pg=PA110#v=onepage" <br class="br">The Defendant (1901)
“Maybe. A powerful. Enough. Metaphor. Grows. Its own. Truth.”
Matthew Stover book Blade of Tyshalle
(VIII.4) Del Rey, p. 284
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
Variant: Maybe. A powerful. Enough. Metaphor. Grows. Its own. Truth.
“Either ghosts are a metaphor for history, or history is a metaphor for ghosts.”
Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 133
Per Bak (1948–2002) Danish physicist
[Per Bak, How Nature Works: the science of self-organized criticality, Springer, 1996, 0387947914]
“A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.”
Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books