Allegory Quotes - Page 3

• The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

  Michel Tournier

  Function, Myth

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• I suspect the popularity of young adults and dystopian novels has something to do with a desire for allegory and old-fashioned morality tales. In fact, you might find your religious framework here in dystopian, post-apocalyptic fiction. Here, and in videogames, you find strict codes of authority, the "rules of the game," the life-or-death quest and struggle that people crave.

  Allegra Goodman

  Religious, Struggle, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Smell, Dislike

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• When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Mexican, Encounters, Definitions

  Source: variety.com

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• I argue against literal interpretation of religious doctrines. Religions make progress when they emancipate themselves from literalism, and take their doctrinal statements to be metaphors or allegories.

  Philip Kitcher

  Religious, Progress, Doctrine

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.

  Agnes Varda

  Mean, Needs, Vagabonds

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• What makes Jessica Jones series so unique is that it really is an allegory for many different types of abuse, whether it be sexual abuse, physical abuse, or psychological abuse. That's what makes this such an incredibly bold show.

  Rachael Taylor

  Unique, Abuse, Different

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• Cable news is 24 hours long so you have to fill it up with something. No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman. It's a joke. Clearly he is a classic, old school bad guy. He's bad not because he works for an oil company but because he's evil. No, it's not a communist movie in any way.

  James Bobin

  Old School, Character, Oil

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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

  Metaphor, Myth, Walt

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• We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus, Minerva, Mars, and the rest-as allegories. But, forgetting that they once carried as much sanctity as our saints and divinities, we refrain from applying the same reasoning to our own objects of worship.

  Julian Huxley

  God, Religious, Rivers

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• A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Reality, Lunch, Naked

  1954 'On Burroughs' Work'.

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• She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Rivals, Headstrong

  The Rivals act 3, sc. 3 (1775)

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• If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne Michaels as a symbol for God and my struggles with hair removal as a metaphor for virtue

  Tina Fey

  Spiritual, Struggle, Hair

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

  Chris Terrio

  Years, Organization, Way

  "'Argo' Screenwriter Explains the CIA Secrets and Surprises Behind the Film". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I don't like allegory.

  China Mieville

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• There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.

  A. S. Byatt

  School, Writing, Artist

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• I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Art, Hate, Order

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• Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Sports, Commitment, Levels

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• It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.

  Lionel Trilling

  Errors, Metaphor, Accepted

  Lionel Trilling (1939). “Matthew Arnold”

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• for ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.

  Helen Waddell

  Europe, Debt, World

  Helen Waddell (2000). “The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• We're now seeing levels of inequality raise their heads that we haven't seen since the age of the robber barons. If somebody watched The Deuce, and understood the allegory about capital and labor, and understands what happens when one side is vulnerable to the other, that would be swell.

  David Simon

  Age, Vulnerable, Inequality

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic terrorists.

  Dennis Miller

  Islamic, Iran, America

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• Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

  Craig Ferguson

  Lying, Sacred, Confession

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.9, Chronicle Books

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• Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories - and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

  Milan Kundera

  Art, People, Imagination

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Series Seven". Book edited by George Plimpton, October 1, 1986.

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• Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary importance. Science fiction tends to be more about the science, or the invention of the fantasy world, or the political allegory. When I left science fiction, I said "They're more interested in planets, and I'm interested in people."

  Donald E. Westlake

  Thinking, People, Political

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2006.

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