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

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer... view

By: Sarah Bernhardt

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In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am... view

By: Carl Jung

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I believe we've spent many years trying to bring about talks which have all the Parties in Northern Ireland involved so that there'd be inclusive talks... view

By: Dick Spring

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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see... view

By: Bebe Neuwirth

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When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it... view

By: Dimebag Darrell

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I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing... view

By: Ethan Suplee

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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure... view

By: Ambrose Bierce

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Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise... view

By: Ezra Pound

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I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry... view

By: Kenneth Koch

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I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis... view

By: James Tobin

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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves... view

By: Walt Whitman

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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art... view

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

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