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Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon. -- Morton Feldman
While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything. -- Octavia Butler
Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism? -- Margaret Thatcher
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. -- Simone Weil
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. -- Peter Morgan
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes. -- Greg Daniels
The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule. -- David Josiah Brewer
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable. -- Paul Claudel
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.' -- Tony Oller
Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith. -- Austin Farrer
Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. -- Beeban Kidron
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point. -- Lauren DeStefano
What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area. -- Julian Fellowes
No man can prophesy with another's parable. -- Anna Julia Cooper
On every parable you ride to every truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly. -- Henry David Thoreau
In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable. -- Giulio Andreotti
Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat. -- Christopher Moore
whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come. -- Paul Althaus
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. -- Beeban Kidron
The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches. -- Carl Jung
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech -- Dan Barker
And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech. -- Dan Barker
That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation. -- Jake Halpern
Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made. -- Lewis B. Smedes
If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion. -- Ray William Johnson
He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you. -- Tony Oller
--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal. -- Marilynne Robinson
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable -- Paul Claudel
The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present. -- A. A. Gill
Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact. -- Muriel Spark
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant. -- Penelope Lively
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter. -- Laura Mullen
The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are not Bible stories that we learn; these are our stories. -- Leonard Sweet
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door. -- John Updike
Christ , in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim. -- James F. Cooper
It is for this reason that Jesus left us the parable of the unfaithful servant, inviting us into a sincere fraternity in order that through it we could find the path of rehabilitation. -- Chico Xavier
The Ploughmen is part inspired fever-dream, part adventure story, a lyric parable of not just goodand evil but of the vast and beautiful and often lonely country in-between. Kim Zupan is a wonder. -- Rick Bass
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love. -- W. H. Auden

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