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"There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate."
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epigrams
fandom
similes
on-writing
disappointment
writers
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Margaret Atwood |
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Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
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well-worn-phrases
similes
nails
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Charles Dickens |
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The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.
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lulz
similes
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Clive Barker |
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Kissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass.
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humor
similes
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George Saunders |
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...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.
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simile
worship
joy
similes
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John Piper |
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Newly Found Sugary Spill: Tastes Like Dried Spit or Old Soda
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similes
gross
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Chris Ware |