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Tag Name "Simile" (32)

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Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South
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Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three,' and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that launched a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed look like a bottle of champagne.
Terry Pratchett
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Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.
William Shakespeare
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I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.
Alan Garner
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Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
Charles Dickens
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
Ernest Hemingway
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In argument similes are like songs in love they describe much, but prove nothing.
Franz Kafka
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By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.
George Orwell
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Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
Giannina Braschi
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Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity it showcases the fact that the soul of the music has been compromised to control the industry.
Immortal Technique
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Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.
James J. Kilpatrick
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A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.
Laurence Sterne
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The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.
Ned Beauman
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One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.
Ogden Nash
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Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another the earth moans with metaphors.
Osip Mandelstam
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Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
Salman Rushdie
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Life is like a simile.
Terry Carr
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Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
Will Self
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Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.
William Wordsworth
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.
Arthur C. Clarke
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God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.
Christina, Queen of Sweden
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One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.
Evelyn Waugh
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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
George Orwell
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