"There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors."

Mary Catherine Bateson, American Scientist

Metaphor, Metaphors

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"I'm sorry you lost the suit,' he said.She shrugged.'At this point, it was mostly a metaphor anyway,' she said..."

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"A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!"

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Philip K. Dick, American Writer

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"Poetry isn't an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn't a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn't swimming. Poetry is water."

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"Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Life, Growth, Struggle

"Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light."

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Metaphor, Healing, Transformation, Light, Hope

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"I'm sorry you lost the suit,' he said.She shrugged.'At this point, it was mostly a metaphor anyway,' she said..."

"Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action."

"A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!"

"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump, you may be freeing him from being a camel."

"There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense."

"Poetry isn't an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn't a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn't swimming. Poetry is water."

"Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101."

"Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest."

"Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber."

"Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light."

Explore more quotes by Mary Catherine Bateson

"The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."

"The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy."

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."

"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."

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"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."