A Quote by Terry Carr

Life is like a simile.

Terry Carr

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Life Life Is Life Is Like Like Simile

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Terry Carr
American - Fictioneer
February 19, 1937 - April 7, 1987

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

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

A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject; must show it to the understanding in a clearer view, and display it to the fancy with greater dignity; but either of these qualities may be sufficient to recommend it.... That it may be complete, it is required to exhibit, independently of its references, a pleasing image; for a simile is said to be a short episode.

Samuel Johnson

A metaphor is like a simile.

Steven Wright

A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

John Quincy Adams

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

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

A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.

George McWhirter

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.

Tim Vine

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

Laurence Sterne

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

James Geary

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

Oscar Wilde

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

Charles Dickens

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

Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.

Joe R. Lansdale

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